Unpopular opinion: You could just pay for the services you are using. It’s a private platform and it’s not necessary for your survival. You shouldn’t feel entitled to get anything but the most necessary things for free. If anything, getting free things is a privilege.
It’s for that reason that I think pay for sites should be the norm as from what I’m informed video sharing sites like YouTube are a very unprofitable business model and even with the ads YouTube is not breaking even it’s only a loss that Google can afford and YouTube brings attention to other Google services while yes we have parts of the web where even when you pay you still get ads and that’s wrong
It’s not unpopular, it’s just that on Lemmy and in tech circles, it’s not cool to pay for things. Cool people steal content they have no rights to because they like doing crime and not having consequences. I’m a carpenter, and I work hard for a living, so I value work and my ethics are to reward others for their work. Pirates don’t see the world that way, no matter what bullshit they spew about how horrible a company is or how it doesn’t deserve to be paid. Your not alone, but it might seem that way on Lemmy.
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Unpopular opinion: You could just pay for the services you are using. It’s a private platform and it’s not necessary for your survival. You shouldn’t feel entitled to get anything but the most necessary things for free. If anything, getting free things is a privilege.
It’s for that reason that I think pay for sites should be the norm as from what I’m informed video sharing sites like YouTube are a very unprofitable business model and even with the ads YouTube is not breaking even it’s only a loss that Google can afford and YouTube brings attention to other Google services while yes we have parts of the web where even when you pay you still get ads and that’s wrong
It’s not unpopular, it’s just that on Lemmy and in tech circles, it’s not cool to pay for things. Cool people steal content they have no rights to because they like doing crime and not having consequences. I’m a carpenter, and I work hard for a living, so I value work and my ethics are to reward others for their work. Pirates don’t see the world that way, no matter what bullshit they spew about how horrible a company is or how it doesn’t deserve to be paid. Your not alone, but it might seem that way on Lemmy.