[418tpot]

I have no problem paying creators for content. If a creator I follow has a patreon or some other method of supporting them I pay for it without hesitation.

What I do have a problem with is supporting a company that is actively destroying the free internet. I think Google is a much bigger cause of the issues of the internet today than me attempting to maintain freedom in how I consume my carefully selected media.

For example: I want to watch videos in mpv, which tiles nicely in my WM, and doesn't have toxic social media features such as like buttons, comments, and related videos which serve no purpose other than to entice me into wasting time watching useless content.

[rajup]

Ok fair points,but how does the creator achieve the reach he has? Or pay for hosting and serving content across the globe? He doesn’t pay for either of these right? YouTube pays for this and you the user can choose to pay by watching ads or paying a subscription fee (Patreon does not defray Google’s costs).

There are tons of reasons to be pissed with google, but I find this allergy to YT premium very fascinating, especially when many of the same people would cheer a paid search subscription.