Comment on Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium"

• Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How is that any different from shifting existing features to premium? If you aren’t paying you’re lucky to get anything.

  I dont pay and I ad block everything. I’m surprised I can use the site at all. These features are nice to haves and not core to using YouTube.

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  • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Lucky to get anything? YouTube couldnt even have grown at all if it was a paid product from the start. People made it into the success it is, by using it.

    Now when its a monopoly, they do a bait and switch.

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    • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So because they started off offering something for free they owe us?

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      • bold_atlas@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah. They owe us, they owe their content creators, they owe the tax payers who built and power the platform for them to be getting rich on.

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  • bold_atlas@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I dont pay and I ad block everything. I’m surprised I can use the site at all. These features are nice to haves and not core to using YouTube.

    3 billion active viewers is what makes up the majority of Alphabet’s stock value. The revenue ad and premium are peanuts. It still barely breaks even. That’s why youtube will never go full paywall.

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  • atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As far as i know, there is a difference in psychology between taking away features and adding the new features already behind a paywall

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  • schmups@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    With you on this. Freeloaders have so many options to use the same service

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