• SomeDude@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Ngl: I’d pay or even enter a subscription payment to keep it that way.

    It’s absurd, and yet in a capitalistic way totally logical, that companies do not offer total ad-free and tracking-free experiences to their paying customers.

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      I’ve said about YouTubers if they made their own/joined a Peertube instance. At least I know the money wouldn’t be going to money hungry CEO’s, but directly to running their server or supporting them in SOME significant way

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          I think curiosity stream is a bit different, but nebula and float plane are both creator run and owned and as far as I’m aware both are good to the people making content for them.

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      I saw a blog recently that had a subscription for a tracking free experience. I just thought it was strange because I either had to consent to all tracking or pay

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      in the first rounds of the adblock wars, there were several cases of users paying the subscription, whitelisting the site, and immediately being hit with malware …