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[–] [email protected] 51 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Was YouTube ever profitable?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

I actually had trouble finding that out (although I only looked for like, 15 minutes). It's apparently difficult to determine according to some tech websites. I do have this chart that says since 2017 YouTube ad revenue has been 7-11% of Google's global revenue but I don't know if that = profit. Decided to meme anyways because I have ads blocked on PC but still see them on my phone.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 6 months ago (5 children)

"I have ads blocked on PC but still see them on my phone."

If you're on Android, ReVanced. And if you're on iOS, well get fucked or something, idk

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I just use Firefox with extensions on mobile honestly

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Yeah I completely gave up on the app. Firefox with ublock is a blessing, internet in general is basically unusable on mobile without it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (4 children)

In iOS you can use Yattee and link to an alternative Frontend. Works well for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I use adguard on ios, also a vpn btw, and blocks all ads in browser and blocks ads in yt videos in their app. Used yattee for a bit, but tbh I didn’t like the UX, then it stopped working so I switched

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Seconded on this one. I use Yattee with Piped as my frontend, with an account as well, and it’s been pretty solid so far.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

didn’t work for piped.video and yewtu.be. which front end are you using?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

He explicitly told you to get lost or something, dude!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

You just got me free music, I couldn't afford it anymore so I have to drop it. Thank you

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

On ios there's brave browser and firefox focus.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I've been using revanced for a year and something happened in the past couple of weeks where it just refuses to work and keeps sayi go there's no internet connection :( I have uninstalled and reinstalled/patched things as per instructions and nothing.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

Hosting a streaming service is incredibly expensive. Especially at the scale of YouTube. I can imagine YouTube is costing far more for Google than Search itself.

My guess is that YouTube has never really been profitable, which is why they’re pushing users to buy Premium.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

Youtube has always claimed that it doesn't turn a profit but I don't believe them. My reasoning is that if the server costs are more than the revenue today, then they're going to be worse tomorrow. A gorillian gigabytes of data are uploaded to that thing every nanosecond. A company can't get exponentially less profitable every second and still survive. And what else is there to prop it up? Google ad results? No way is Youtube not profitable. They're saying that to avoid tax.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

get firefox with ublock origin. block that garbage on mobile too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Just use any app like newpipe or pipepipe

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Given the tech turnover rate at google (the rate at which they kill products) the answer is most probably yes.