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Unpopular Opinion: I don’t like ads as much as anyone, I’d rather YouTube monetises 1440p and 4k content instead of forcing people to watch ads. YouTube is an extremely expensive business to run, so it being free forever is completely unsustainable.
Well they own a lot of the infrastructure that makes youtube possible, which means they are keeping their own costs a lot lower than people think. I believe a lot of the 'its unsustainable!!', or 'it makes no money!!' rhetoric we are hearing is come straight from the google PR dept.
A lot of devices still don't run much more than 1080p so theres not a big audience for what you suggested.
Cant be that different a number of devices who are running ad block
Phones and laptops have adblock, too, mate. It's not exclusive to people who make 80k+ a year.
Those also have firefox, you wanna compare the install count on that?
Not very many people actually use adblock, compared to who dont. A lot easier to just buy a machine and screen that can run 4k than figure out what the kids mean when they say "plugin"
I think you're very much mistaken about the widespread use of adblockers.
Yeah but still with ads for free users.