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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Tischkante@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
YouTube messed up by not being a paid only service first and later offering an advertisement supported free tier. That way around, they’d be celebrated.
Auli@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org 1 year ago
everyone thinks it’s free to host all those videos right?
Everyone thinks they make no money by selling trillions of ads right?
MajorasMaskForever@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Kinda hard to sell ads when everyone blocks them
SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org 1 year ago
That’s clearly not the case and everyone knows it. I would be surprised if 10% of ads get blocked
atetulo@lemm.ee 1 year 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.
pirat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Paid-only YouTube would never have become what free, ad-supported YouTube is/was.
It would never have seen the same mass adoption.
Tischkante@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year 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.
Then_I_said@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
They wouldn’t have as much content that way.
Tischkante@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
I mean the very first year or two. As I understand they were burning money anyway, but it’s too late now.
SCB@lemmy.world 1 year 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.