I personally have no problem with paying for a service. However, if I buy premium to remove the ads, YT has no longer the need to collect my data. But it is Google and they won’t stop collecting. That, plus the fact that Google basically has a monopoly with youtube are the reasons I don’t buy premium.
“Your info won’t be used for ads”. Does that also mean that they won’t collect any info about you? Theoretically, they don’t have any reason to collect data anymore because you pay them.
Ah, on that note, a while ago, I also bookmarked: cwtch.im I think that is the same of what you mean. But thanks for bring collateral freedom and yggdrasil to my attention. Good food for thought.
I am a bit curious how such a decentralized network would function in terms of performance (especially in the case of many wireless nodes because you need quite some to cover large distances). You can ofcourse use them to get internet over the border of a country that blocked it but I find it hard to imagine how that would function on a larger schale
They main problem I have with this is that we don't have a decent alternative for youtube yet. The main reason I don't want to pay for youtube is because it is Google. With YT premium you don't buy privacy (logically you would say with removing ads you also remove the need to track people).
YouTube puts third-party clients on notice: Show ads or get blocked (arstechnica.com)
Meta payment message (iusearchlinux.fyi)
So I got the message from instagram about either paying or using it free (at the cost personalised ads) just now....
Russia Is Trying to Leave the Internet and Build Its Own (www.scientificamerican.com)
YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)