> (because you actually do like it, just on your terms)

It's the same BS as the "I wasn't going to buy it anyway" response to piracy.

People just want their stuff and then add whatever rationalisation on top.

I really, really want to see how you do "consume" content with the random stream of intruding Ads every few minutes. I'm really curious to see people enjoying that. Strangely enough I link all that mentality to another one, vivid example of the same "joy" and only experienced in the US. That's the "tipping" culture - you're expected, oh, rather obliged to give a tip when served. I guess people enjoying Ads are the same enjoying that obligation, too. As for the serious matter of good content creators gaining financial support - you probably noticed that there're "membership" options, many do have side platforms with membership as well... So there're ways that actually work, but no, Alphabet doesn't like that, aren't they?

	▲	rkomorn 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		I guess, first, I'll caveat all this with: I have enough money to buy things. I pay for YT premium because I put my money where my mouth is. I also simply avoid content that has ads, and have ended up blocking a lot of sources from my news apps because of the ads-to-quality ratio not being worth it. I also don't try to get around paywalls. When I get a pop up that asks me to enable cookies to see the content, or subscribe, I just close the page and don't consume the content because I don't like the terms. I tip because, even though I think the tipping system is entirely bullshit (and never got tips while working in fancy restaurant kitchens because there was no tip sharing), people deserve to make a living and me stiffing people on their tips is just me being shitty and not some grand revolutionary gesture against the system. What I don't do is create my own terms on which to still consume the content/services I'm getting. Also worth noting that absolutely none of this represents some endorsement of that companies like Google, Meta, etc do (in particular in the ads-based world). I don't like ads, I don't like shitty JS. I don't like being "forced" (by norms) to tip. I just agree to either paying for something (directly or indirectly), or not using the product. And, maybe most of all, I don't believe that Google being shitty means I can be shitty. My ethics are mine, and they're not relative.