I'm up in arms about it because it's illegal. Google is using their vast profits from an unrelated market, tracking-based advertising, in order to subsidize th

I'm up in arms about it because it's illegal. Google is using their vast profits from an unrelated market, tracking-based advertising, in order to subsidize their product in this market, that of video-streaming services. This is a textbook antitrust violation [1]. It is against the law to price a product below your costs in order to kill off your competitors and then jack up the prices later. This is what they have done by making it ad free for years, only to now force ads on everyone and upsell us to premium. These laws exist to protect you, the consumer, by ensuring there is proper market competition for your goods and services. You should be up in arms about it because Google has illegally destroyed this market. This is why there are no competitors to YouTube. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing (edit: replaced link to "Dumping" with "Predatory pricing" since that's probably a better description of the law being broken)