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YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2023
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Asking genuinely, if you were in charge of YouTube, and you don't think anyone should pay for YouTube, and you don't think you should run ads, how exactly would you go about paying for the massive amount of engineers and infrastructure needed to keep the lights on?
Honestly?
Not my monkeys, not my circus.
I don't care what YouTube wants to do or how they do it, they need viewers and if they can't figure out how to keep em, ah well. They gotta create a service that caters to my behavior, not the other way around.
Well, actually, they have to create a service that caters to people who bring them revenue. If that isn't you, they don't have to, and actively shouldn't, cater to you at all.
You're just saying "I don't have an actual answer" in a roundabout way.
Well, I don't, but it isn't my problem.
Google makes enough money as is, I don't really care if the make poor decisions and end up with an unviable business model. I'll do other things with my time.
I don't really care about Google's wellbeing. I pay directly to the content creators I like and I hate seeing ads anywhere in my life and I'm willing to put in time and effort to make sure I see as few as possible.
If they say that the marketing data they scrape from user activity isn't enough for em, well, sucks to suck I guess.
For someone who doesn't care and has no viable responses to the questions here, you sure do have a lot to say.
It's true, I'm very passionate about never viewing any advertisements!
Alternatively, they'll take steps towards a more viable business model, and you'll also find other things to do with your time.
You can zap all ads forever with a few minutes and a credit card, if you're willing.
That's the thing with ads. They're a thorn in my side. That Google puts there.
If you were charging me to remove the thorns you put in my side, I'd be belligerent towards you. And I ain't gonna give ya money.
Is YouTube running at a loss, anyway? Or is Google just trying to squeeze more money outta its products? Maybe they should be content with the profits they got. Some quick searching says it generates somewhere in the realm of $29,000,000,000 in revenue annually. I imagine it's likely they can afford to not be so damn greedy.
We have no idea if YouTube operates at a loss or is profitable. Google won't say. Revenue really tells you very little when you look at what it takes to run something like YouTube. It's a huge reason why an open competitor is so hard to make work.