Comment on Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium"
Fizz@lemmy.nz 3 weeks agoHow 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.
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.
With you on this. Freeloaders have so many options to use the same service
As far as i know, there is a difference in psychology between taking away features and adding the new features already behind a paywall
1984@lemmy.today 3 weeks 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.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
So because they started off offering something for free they owe us?
bold_atlas@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Some artists making content are practically their own little PBS stations or something, I’m with ya!
Would it be more palatable if they told us using adblock w/o premium was “robbing creators of one-hundredth of a cent each time” or something? If I’m not mistaken there is a connection between content creator payouts and that.