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YouTube premium's cost is unreasonable compared to the ad revenue they're missing out on. I personally don't mind covering the lost income from ads but I'm not
by munk-a 3y ago
YouTube premium's cost is unreasonable compared to the ad revenue they're missing out on. I personally don't mind covering the lost income from ads but I'm not going to pay simply to avoid being abused. And this model is repeated across quite a few ad-free services - Meta's program charges triple[1] what it earns per user, Reddit charges 150x[2] what it earns from advertising.
Just let us pay your ad revenue and don't be exploitative.
1. Meta earns about 40/year from EU citizens while their ad-free service will cost 120/year
2. The ad-free reddit experience costs 50/year while for an average user they only earn about 30 cents every year.
- chillee 3y agoI think 40/year is the ARPU globally - the EU number is 71.52. But it’s a bit worse than that, since users willing to pay for adblocking are disproportionately rich users, making them more valuable.