Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers

nobleshift@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• legion02@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Patreon and sites like it exist as a hedge against YouTube banning your channel.

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I would love it but I don’t see it.

  It costs an enormous amount of money to host video content, doubly so when you need to replicate it across servers. I have never seen another company come close to usurping them.

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  • linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, The problem is, the price on YouTube is so incredibly expensive because we have to pay for a million script kiddies worth of useless videos to be uploaded and permanently stored everyday.

    If someone made a competing system where you had to pay a small amount to host a video and then it turned around and paid you once you’ve got enough eyeballs that would be a far more sustainable model and cause people to police their old underperforming content.

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  • stoly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I agree. We don’t get a new YouTube, we get whatever comes after YouTube—some new modality.

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• Delta_V@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think its more likely that YouTube will shut down and be replaced by nothing. Its existence has never made sense as anything but an act of charity from an organization with tech resources to burn.

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  • stoly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Remember that Google bought YouTube only AFTER it was successful for several years. This was also before Google turned evil.

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    • jorp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There are a lot of unprofitable startups that get purchased speculatively based on other factors like their user count. The idea being the buyer thinks they can monetize.

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      • stoly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        This was more like a merger with Google being the larger company.

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