• lledrtx@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    How do you propose YouTube should pay for infrastructure costs (servers, Internet etc), staff costs (engineers, designers, moderators) and the content creators?

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      8 months ago

      Google Ads on the webpages of all the webpages on the Internet, similar to their status quo.

      I don’t think any of us should be concerned about Google’s cash flow. It’s their job.

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        8 months ago

        Are you saying that the ads shouldn’t be video ads but webpage ads, instead?

        It’s their job.

        Yeah, exactly why they are enforcing anti-adblock rules…

        • r3df0x ✡️✝☪️@7.62x54r.ru
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          8 months ago

          If this is how Youtube advertised, I wouldn’t block the ads. I refuse to sit through ads when I’m searching through videos and I don’t even know if the video is the one I want to watch. It’s going to take a three minute search into a 10 minute search.

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      8 months ago

      I would’ve been fine paying if the price reflected what I was actually paying for (not being advertised to) which would be <$0.005 per viewed video (let’s be generous and call it 1 or 2$/mo) but noo they have to ask for 25$/month like greedy little shits.

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        8 months ago

        That price wouldn’t even begin to cover it. Infrastructure is expensive at that quality. Engineers to maintain such infrastructure are also expensive. Content creators make a ton of money too. Their profits are much lower compared to peers - https://mannhowie.com/youtube-valuation

        Also, 22$/month gets you a family plan for 5 people so wtf are you talking about?

        I don’t give 2 shits about YouTube, I use ad block where I can too. I’m just saying that people who complain about YouTube’s anti-adblock stuff are being unrealistic, you can’t fault them for trying to block people from stealing from them.