Comment on YouTube's war against third party apps is just as ridiculous as its war on adblockers

• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yup. I’ve considered paying for YouTube premium, but:

  • it’s too expensive for how much I watch
  • the YouTube app kinda sucks - NewPipe is nice to use (adjust volume and brightness by sliding a finger)
  • it’s unclear how much creators get from my subscription
  • there’s still sponsorships and whatnot

  Nebula gets rid of the ads and sponsorships, and my understanding is creators get a larger cut vs YouTube. Grayjay allows me to follow multiple streaming services and has the volume/brightness management bits as well. I’m willing to pay for both of them because they bring value, YouTube doesn’t.

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• misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We’ll never know since we don’t have numbers that Google does. Sadly, that also makes Google the best candidate to determine what’s the best strategy for them :p

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• Admetus@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  YouTube already did the math, as did almost every single company and corporation on the planet.

  There’s a lot more revenue in advertising than subscriptions, especially on a website that started off entirely free (so Netflix for example goes in the subscription model rather than the advertising model but that seems to have changed!)

  There’s a mass of people who follow up on these advertisements. The latest advertisements I’ve encountered on YouTube are really really calculated and well scripted. For example the digital dollar advertisements sound like they’re going to save you from financial ruin. It’s clever and it’s working. Money is pouring in.

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• Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Or maybe Google should just improve the experience so people want to pay for a premium subscription.

  The problem is that YouTube kind of already peaked, you can’t really make something that works well better

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