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[–] bestelbus22@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Video hosting costs a lot of money. I wouldn't expect that to be delivered for free

[–] Johanno@feddit.org 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Well then make Premium a reasonable price.

And just don't provide stuff for free. Nobody forces alphabet to provide youtube without account and for free.

It was a money sink since Google created it

[–] Benaaasaaas@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Bough it

Twish it!

Pull it!

(Yeah I know this joke is a stretch lmao)

[–] eyeon@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

They don't provide stuff for free, they provide stuff in exchange for your data and to sell ads.

[–] HStone32@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They had a good thing going. YouTube was far from unprofitable. But the skyrocketing density and plummeting quality of ads drove people to adblockers.

I suspect though, the day will soon come when ad-space is no longer quite so valuable.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

It was fine until "the adpocalypse", when advertisers pulled their ads because they were being shown with offensive videos.

While YouTube has been trying to fix the problem the quality of the ads has reduced. So many advertisers now only go through sponsorship, which doesn't give any share to YouTube.

[–] bigFab@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Youtube servers are terrible. Why not focus on offering a smoother experience? Then charge what you want.

[–] bestelbus22@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

What's terrible about them? I have no issues here in west Europe