• CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    They are still using it and costing YouTube money in aggregate

    The poor company only making $31.5 Billion a year has to eat the streaming cost for someone using as ad blocker? Won’t somebody PLEASE think of the billionaires?!

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      8 months ago

      Oh no won’t someone please think of the people so entitled they believe they should get everything for free.

      Like, I just don’t understand the thought process behind people like you.

      Do you ask for free everything else?

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        It’s not about wanting everything for free, it’s about billionaires asking for more all the time. I can’t find any information about the costs of running YouTube, but it’s definitely making a profit. It’s making over 30 billion in ad revenue and 15 billion from subscriptions. And somehow that’s not enough and they need more.

        I don’t understand why people feel the need to defend billionaires and their corporations out of all the things to spend your time on…

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            8 months ago

            Out of the billions of dollars that Alphabet extracts from harvesting your data and selling it to advertisers?

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            8 months ago

            Stfu, I’m subbed. But as soon as I get an ad or a price hike, I’m out. And I’m not gonna blame anyone that can’t or won’t pay. Especially when there’s ads every 2 minutes. That shit is abusive. Defending it is fucking disgusting. Can’t think of anything in this world that’s a bigger waste of time…like… literally you could do anything else and it’d be more worthwhile.

            Btw. How are you paying for Lemmy?

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              8 months ago

              I’m not!

              I also wouldn’t be bitching if they charged or wanted ads.

              At that point I would probably just pay them.

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            8 months ago

            Same way I used to pay for YouTube and currently pay for Podcasts: A small number of ads, at a designated spot, that I can skip through if I don’t want to watch.

            It would be trivial for youtube to stop adblockers by making the ads indistinguishable from the rest of the stream: Coming from the same source and behaving like the rest of the video (your controls don’t get locked). But that doesn’t grow their every increasing hoard of wealth fast enough. The product must be made worse for profits to grow more, and according to you I should be thanking them for decreasing the quality of their product for me. $30 billion is not enough! The company demands infinite growth in a closed system! (Or as biologists call it: cancer)

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          8 months ago

          Not one red cent, I also wouldn’t bitch if part of the necessity was to charge or have ads.

          I’d rather pay someone else than selfhost