I've been seriously thinking about giving YouTube the few dollars a month required to get rid of the adverts, which of course I'm really conflicted over! It's not the money - it's who it's going to... Will any of it go to those who actually made the videos? I suspect not, since any who do put their own videos there, make it from adverts, as far as I know. Except for the pay-to-view movies they offer, I guess. But maybe the likes of Vevo get some of it. Maybe it's explained somewhere? Well yes, it is...
So it's possible the makers of videos will get a bit when I look at their videos. I doubt it's much, but then I won't be giving much, will I? Well, US$12.99 a month, I guess. Slightly less conflicted now...
People would move to a paid alternative to FB for the same reason LJ users move here - because LJ keeps pissing people off. Look for 'newbyday' spikes here during 2016 and 2017 for examples...
And because LJ (and FB) are free, you can afford to keep using them while testing the new one. And you don't have to pay for DW anyway, but enough do to keep it afloat. That's a good model for a social network I think, as those that really care about it are willing to pay to keep it going - and consider the free users are paying too by providing them with content to read.
duckduckgo is better for image searches than Google sometimes, in that it gives you mostly what's relevant to your search and not a lot of stuff that isn't. It keeps improving, but has started to show adverts now. :(
Just looked at Telegram - but the first question they asked for was my phone number, which put me off! Can it have public messages?
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Date: 2017-11-12 09:06 am (UTC)https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/72902?hl=en
So it's possible the makers of videos will get a bit when I look at their videos. I doubt it's much, but then I won't be giving much, will I? Well, US$12.99 a month, I guess. Slightly less conflicted now...
People would move to a paid alternative to FB for the same reason LJ users move here - because LJ keeps pissing people off. Look for 'newbyday' spikes here during 2016 and 2017 for examples...
https://www.dreamwidth.org/stats/stats.txt
And because LJ (and FB) are free, you can afford to keep using them while testing the new one. And you don't have to pay for DW anyway, but enough do to keep it afloat. That's a good model for a social network I think, as those that really care about it are willing to pay to keep it going - and consider the free users are paying too by providing them with content to read.
duckduckgo is better for image searches than Google sometimes, in that it gives you mostly what's relevant to your search and not a lot of stuff that isn't. It keeps improving, but has started to show adverts now. :(
Just looked at Telegram - but the first question they asked for was my phone number, which put me off! Can it have public messages?