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[-] OR3X@lemmy.world 54 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The people saying "just pay for premium" don't seem to understand that in the beginning YouTube was free and had no ads. When google purchased it they promised to keep it that way. Then they slowly started with ads. At first they were pretty unobtrusive banners, then a short skippable preroll then multiple preroll then unskippable preroll. The reason I refuse to pay for premium is because Google created this issue and is now selling the solution. I refuse to be a part of that. It has nothing to do with the creators.

[-] mlc894@lemmy.world 0 points 18 hours ago

I don’t think this is as simple as “they’re too young to know”! I’m a 30+ year old man, and I was around 15 when YouTube first came out. I was a huge fan of the early days, when YouTube was free!

I am absolutely fine with paying a monthly/annual fee for ad-free access to perhaps the best compilation of human knowledge and entertainment which has ever been compiled in one place. One reason I’m cool with it is that premium views pay the content creator more than the equivalent ad view.

Sure, YouTube “created the issue” of ads. But if it means supporting the creators and removing a barrier to videos, I’m fine with the price.

[-] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 1 points 3 days ago

The people saying “just pay for premium” ~~don’t seem to understand that in the beginning YouTube was free and had no ads~~ were born after the 2008 housing crash

Ftfy.

[-] pirate2377@lemmy.zip 12 points 5 days ago

The cost of hosting YouTube itself doesn't pay for itself unfortunately. They could get away with it back then because the internet itself wasn't that big. Therefore, we need to KICK THE NORMIES OUT OF OUR INTERNET. WE WERE HERE FIRST, REEEEEE

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 14 points 5 days ago

Google reported an annual gross profit of $240.3 billion last year.

They can fucking pay for YouTube

[-] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

It's even worse, their net was $132 billion

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOGL/alphabet/net-income

So even after expenses, the profit of alphabet group was obscene.

[-] Rooster326@programming.dev 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It's even worse, they laid off approximately 12,000 employees in 2024 alone.

So even after everything, the profit of alphabet group was obscene.

[-] Pman@lemmy.org 13 points 6 days ago

ReVanced and Grayjay do the same thing but for free and are open source so long as Google keeps trying to engineer enshitification the proud people of the open source community will engineer a solution.

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[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 9 points 6 days ago

I would totally pay for youtube if it was even remotely decently priced.

You can get multiple concurrents on disney+, Hulu or Netflix with blockbuster content for the same price as youtube's slop filled premium family.

Seriously, the service is worth maybe $9 a month. I don't want their music, i won't use it, the quality is crap.

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[-] djdarren@piefed.social 6 points 5 days ago

With the glorious return of Tom Scott, I finally signed up to Nebula yesterday, and am pleasantly surprised at how many of my YT regulars are already on there. £30 for a year, no ads, and an Apple TV app.

Which is £30 more than I paid YouTube, because the family plan is a ridiculous amount of money.

[-] Xylight@lemdro.id 18 points 6 days ago

They're eventually gonna start banning accounts for this and then requiring login to view YouTube.

[-] megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I doubt they’ll ever actually do it, just threaten it constantly.

They’d rather have people without accounts, and/or using adblockers keep using the site. If they started actually cracking down, then it would create a significant pool of users who would use some other platform. They’d rather eat the losses of some people not viewing ads then push a significant amount of users to a potential competitor.

Much like how Microsoft hasn’t cracked down on unlicensed windows installs because it would push a significant amount of people to look for an alternative OS.

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[-] imjustmsk@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

Unlock origin always always always free

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