3 ms·
No, the premise is you get to watch the content if you watch the ads or pay for premium. How do you expect them to pay for their expenses?
by ryanjshaw 3y ago
No, the premise is you get to watch the content if you watch the ads or pay for premium. How do you expect them to pay for their expenses?
- MeImCounting 3y agoIt doesnt really matter to me how they pay for their expenses. It doesnt change the fact that youtube loses its value as an education/entertainment platform to me if they attempt to enforce their adblock-free policy. My choice to support individual creators is none of their business. If its an unsustainable business model for them its odd that its been around for a decade but its really not my concern. If they are going to shut down because Alphabet just cant afford to host it anymore then I would probably try to scrape as much valuable content as possible but for now Ill continue to block ads and support who I want to outside of googles ecosystem.
- efitz 3y agoBut it IS their business because believe it or not it costs a lot of money to operate a video on demand service, and creators don’t pay YouTube.
- pixxel 3y agoThey could offer a p2p layer. The world’s video library shared between humanity. I’d happily seed educational videos.
- Ateoto 3y agoWith the billions[1] they already make on ad revenue I guess? I don't care. For me it's either ad blockers or I don't use the service. YouTube is only still viable because the barriers to start a competing service are so high. Just like every other Alphabet-owned service, their single-minded focus on serving the bare minimum content merely as a vehicle for ads has just decimated the quality of their products. [1] https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/youtube-q3-2023-alphabet-earnings-1235766877/ https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/youtube-q3-2023-alphab...