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At the end of the day people just don’t want to pay: ad blockers, piracy, etc. Of course people will whine when you stop them from getting stuff for free.
by endisneigh 3y ago
At the end of the day people just don’t want to pay: ad blockers, piracy, etc.
Of course people will whine when you stop them from getting stuff for free.
- preciousoo 3y agoI don’t think that’s true. The Netflix model proved that a good UX is preferable, and now every media org is trying to cash in. Piracy usually gets a boom when said media orgs start optimizing for cash in exchange for UX
- TremendousJudge 3y agoGoogle created the youtube "moat" by giving away the service for free for 15 years. In that time, an actually good, sustainable, paid video service could have emerged and everybody would be ok with it. Instead we got current Youtube, with its inescrutable algorithmic feed, content restrictions, and demonetization rules, and Google are asking us to pay for that with the argument that nothing else like it exists. Of course it doesn't, it couldn't exist since free Youtube was in the way.
- endisneigh 3y agoNothing is stopping a paid service now.
- iowemoretohim 3y agoBut it hasn't been free for 15 years. There's been ads on YouTube since 2009 (14 years). The narrative you are trying to paint is built on an incorrect premise.