I get what you mean, but I just don’t care. I’ll stop using YouTube if I can’t use it with adblockers.
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GrayBoltWolf@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Very much agreed. The entitlement is crazy.
Google doesn’t owe you anything, video hosting is extremely expensive. There’s a reason no competitor exists.
How dare they charge to deliver you a service?
iliketurtles@lemmy.world 11 months ago
ExLisper@linux.community 11 months ago
, video hosting is extremely expensive
Here’s a solution: make people pay for having their videos hosted. Video hosting is expensive because YT has to host petabytes of shit, useless content. And I don’t mean 150 versions of ‘I will survive’ on ukulele. I mean completely useless videos like this: www.youtube.com/shorts/4bLDaQAle6c
Why is YT spending money on hosting this? It should be simple: you want your content hosted? Hosting individual videos would not be that expensive. You want to share couple of videos with friends? Pay $1 per month. Serious creators (with a lot of content) could still get money from ads placed in their videos but THEY should be getting the revenue, not YT. YT would get % of it back in form of the hosting fee. I would simply be a way better model.
troglodytis@lemmy.world 11 months ago
How is sharing the love for your puppers useless? A sweet and touching moment.
YT is spending money on hosting that to reinforce their monopoly. If they have the vast majority of user created videos they are able to block ad blockers with minimal loss of user activities. If they did not host such “useless” content another platform would have a space to get a foothold.
Same reason YouTube started hosting shorts, to fill the space that was started on other platforms and help maintain their video hosting monopoly.
Users voicing their displeasure with forced ads is valuable feedback for the monopoly.
ExLisper@linux.community 11 months ago
Sharing with whom? No one will watch it. Definitely no one will search for it. If you want to share video with your friends just send them a message. They will see it and it will be deleted after a week. This makes way more sense than hosting it on a platform indefinitely.
troglodytis@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well, this way I got to see it. Thanks to you. Thanks.
Luckily for me YT hosts all the crap
ExcursionInversion@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Wait you mean youtube isn’t completely free to run?!?
kick_out_the_jams@kbin.social 11 months ago
video hosting is extremely expensive
Year over year I'm pretty sure the cost has only gone down.
TBF 4k and higher resolutions are more common but it's generally not nearly as expensive as it once was.
IAmHiding@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The cost for 1TB has gone down, the total cost is going up because of the crazy amounts of uploaded content. Youtube is getting more and more expensive.
Tygr@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Storage cost has gone down. Bandwidth costs are way up.
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
The reason there is no competitor is that YT was intentionally run at a loss for years to quench all other video hosting platforms and establish a monopoly.
Alternatives do exist but they are irrelevant because the majority of content is being uploaded to the biggest platform. Which is precisely in accordance to YT’s plan.
Heresy_generator@kbin.social 11 months ago
It's people sick of the business model of getting a ton of VC money, burn through that money to offer a service for free until all other possible competitors go out of business because they can't compete with free nor burn money for as long as you, and once you have no competition and a dominant market position start milking your captured users for everything you can since they've no where else to go.
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 11 months ago
THANK YOU, finally, I was wondering when someone was going to stick up for the billionaire tech giants. do these stupid fucking lemmings realize that yachts don’t pay for themselves??