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They want to make it unusable without Premium. This will just get worse and worse until everyone gives in.
by DecentShoes 1y ago
They want to make it unusable without Premium. This will just get worse and worse until everyone gives in.
- Snoozus 1y agoor until revenues drop because people either watch less or avoid buying from companies that pay money to ruin videos...
- gridbug 1y agoMore premium users means fewer ad slots to sell. Which should drive up the price of each ad spot. Or, as you suggest, they can cram more ads in per video, and risk repelling the audience. I wonder what the equilibrium point is.
- throwawyyy47544 1y agoThis is also an opportunity to start showing ads in premium and then create a ultra-premium subscription with none of these ads. This is pretty much what happened in India with all the OTT subscriptions (looking at you Disney+Hotstar)
- revendell_elf 1y ago[dead]
- saghm 1y agoEventually they'll just start driving up the price of premium too to make up for the lost ad revenue. The equilibrium is probably that no one bothers to use it without a subscription, and the subscription is way overpriced. No wonder Chrome has been cracking down even harder on ad blockers recently...
- bdangubic 1y agoor you know, just don’t use the fucking platform. last time I loaded youtube … it’s been years