YouTube: oh no, the freeloaders costing us money are going away, what will we ever do!?
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shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
New article title. YouTube tests more ways of making their service shit and driving away users.
IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Wogi@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I mean, if you’re not paying for it, and they can’t advertise to you, what do they need you for?
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
To keep claiming they have x billion accounts…
There’s a big reason why these companies don’t remove the bots and willingly allow them to do whatever. It boosts their numbers to inflate their actual worth.
tabular@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Does YouTube have competition? Your line of inquiry doesn’t mean much if the content is only on YouTube.
Wogi@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m not sure what point you think you’re making.
YouTube doesn’t want you visiting if they can’t either put ads in front of you or get you to subscribe to premium. I appreciate wanting to access YouTube without ads, but from where they’re sitting, if they scare you off with server side ads all the better.
tabular@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Simply put: why care about their point of view? Google does not have your best interests in mind, often the opposite. There’s no where else to get almost all of the content, why do without or waste time with ads in this short life.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
at least on my part, what they get from channel memberships (a whopping 30%) I’m sure exceeds the amount in ad revenue they lose from me
Cypher@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I did pay for it but they massively increased the price while the recommendation algorithm was deliberately made worse and they wouldn’t stop pushing short format videos.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Youtube is google No 1 source of machine learning content. Fuckloads of video, audio and subtitle data they can use to feed and train their systems. Youtube itself doesnt need to make profit, thats just a bonus for them.
Wogi@lemmy.world 1 month ago
YouTube advertising is more than 10% of Google services total profits.
That’s not a bonus, that’s a dependant revenue stream.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Yeah no, that is revenue. Youtube is 10% of total Google/Alphabet revenue.