[chii]

> That's why trains work

and that's why trains work but you have to pay a higher price to use it, while youtube is shitty, and breaks often, but it's free to use.

It is about the trade offs - not the trade offs that someone talks about passively, but actual action based trade offs; ala voting with their feet.

[chiefalchemist]

> but it’s free to use

This is false. Nothing is free.

We watch ads. We are tracked like animals. That time, attention and loss of privacy *is* payment. For this, it’s reasonable to expect a service that aspires to rise above shit-show.

[kmoser]

Is free software free?

[dtech]

You pay either just with money (Youtube premium) or by watching ads...

[inigyou]

And if you have YouTube Premium and don't have Sponsorblock, you're still watching ads.

Which proves something about ads: there's a law of conservation of ads. If you're not claiming the ad space, your upstream suppliers will.

[mlrtime]

NYC subway has tons of ads and is constantly have problems, this thread comparison is horrible.