Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish

Tischkante@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Then_I_said@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They wouldn’t have as much content that way.

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  • Tischkante@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean the very first year or two. As I understand they were burning money anyway, but it’s too late now.

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    • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Tell me you weren’t around for the first years of YouTube without telling me you weren’t around for the first years of YouTube

      Also not sure why you wanna price poor people out of the internet to avoid ads.

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• Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  People obviously don’t want to pay for stuff. Complaining about ads on YouTube but refusing to pay for no ads. I mean everyone thinks it’s free to host all those videos right?

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  • SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    everyone thinks it’s free to host all those videos right?

    Everyone thinks they make no money by selling trillions of ads right?

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    • MajorasMaskForever@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Kinda hard to sell ads when everyone blocks them

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      • SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s clearly not the case and everyone knows it. I would be surprised if 10% of ads get blocked

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• atetulo@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Youtube wouldn’t have been popular if it was a paid service.

  Also, they didn’t ‘mess’ anything up. The service has been profitable for years.

  This is just an attempt to make more profit off of people’s ever-plummeting standards.

  Just see how many people in here are trying to justify spending more on an already-profitable product. They’re literally just padding the pockets of executives and investors, lol.

  Ahh well. A fool and his money are soon parted.

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• pirat@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Paid-only YouTube would never have become what free, ad-supported YouTube is/was.

  It would never have seen the same mass adoption.

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  • Tischkante@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thats a fair assumption. I think it might’ve just taken longer, especially if the ad-supported tier was there quickly too, or even as an option from the start.

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