<story><title>Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening?</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/15pd5si/today_i_realized_i_now_trust_microsoft_more_than/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throw__away7391</author><text>I generally avoid Google products, but I do not understand the animosity towards YouTube, nor why anyone would not just pay the very small fee for YouTube Premium and do away with all the ads. The content being created for YouTube is fantastic, you can easily watch news from all over the world, conference talks, lectures, interviews, in-depth documentaries and deep dive analysis that blows away anything you&amp;#x27;ll ever see on any mainstream platform. One particular strength is that creators don&amp;#x27;t seem too bound to producing videos for specific length of time. There are literally informative mini-documentaries 90 seconds long while others might go on for 4 hours and they cover every imaginable topic. This is definitely the last subscription I&amp;#x27;d give up if I had to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dotnet00</author><text>The hate for youtube is understandable when you consider how much of it Google changes without listening to anyone. They know they have an effectively monopoly position on video hosting and thus just do whatever they want.&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;ll let their system ban whoever it wants, only letting a human review things if the person is sufficiently large&amp;#x2F;well-connected. They change their policies on a whim regardless of impact on people making a living off Youtube, same with demonetization, they also continue to allow content-ID and DMCA to be abused and have made search completely useless.&lt;p&gt;People are still using YouTube not because they like it, but simply because of the existing network effect and wanting to support their preferred creators. Thus it makes total sense why people would be willing to pay creators but not Google.</text></comment>
<story><title>Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening?</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/15pd5si/today_i_realized_i_now_trust_microsoft_more_than/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throw__away7391</author><text>I generally avoid Google products, but I do not understand the animosity towards YouTube, nor why anyone would not just pay the very small fee for YouTube Premium and do away with all the ads. The content being created for YouTube is fantastic, you can easily watch news from all over the world, conference talks, lectures, interviews, in-depth documentaries and deep dive analysis that blows away anything you&amp;#x27;ll ever see on any mainstream platform. One particular strength is that creators don&amp;#x27;t seem too bound to producing videos for specific length of time. There are literally informative mini-documentaries 90 seconds long while others might go on for 4 hours and they cover every imaginable topic. This is definitely the last subscription I&amp;#x27;d give up if I had to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>goalieca</author><text>&amp;gt; I generally avoid Google products, but I do not understand the animosity towards YouTube, nor why anyone would not just pay the very small fee for YouTube Premium and do away with all the ads.&lt;p&gt;Much of the “fantastic” content I do watch on YouTube has sponsored content in the video. Mostly I avoid YouTube.</text></comment>