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40 points

Im not holding my breath for someone to start hosting petabytes of videos for free. I don’t like ads, so I’m just going to pay.

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7 points

imagine paying to remove ads

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14 points

They started the war, never forget, never forgive.

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10 points

Used to be ads on the side of videos, and they were still scams like “Hit the target to win a FREE ipad!” At least they didn’t block the actual content. No one should ever feel bad about blocking ads lmao.

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Then give us a fair price. YouTube is not making any content, so I just wish to pay for the hosting privileges. That shouldn’t cost me 15€/month. Give me simple prenium that removes ads for 6-7€, and I will jump in. It’s all about what I feel I’m getting.

For instance, I fucking bought a 1300€ pixel 8 pro ROFL.

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6 points

It’s also cool that YouTube Premium pays a bigger cut to creators when compared against regular YouTube ads.

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3 points

I do like that.

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2 points

How much? I doubt it’s more than just enough to make people think that, “oh that’s nice”, while doing some absurd minimum…

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1 point

If you want to support Youtubers, then buy their merch or something like that.

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The cost of supporting every YouTuber I watch with merch greatly outpaces the cost of a few years of premium

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2 points

You say that as if it’s the only option while being on a platform that explicitly isn’t a single organization hosting the entire thing. There’s no way this is a serious comment.

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15 points

Lemmy has 50 thousand users and hosts mostly text and static images. YouTube has 2.7 billion users and hosts mostly high quality video. Pretending it’s even remotely the same is pointless.

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5 points

Of course, and that’s why something like PeerTube works differently.

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Counterpoint. There used to be far less ads

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3 points

Counterpoint. Still not making profits.

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Counterpoint to the counterpoint: Youtube made $28 billion in revenue in 2021. Bandwidth and storage space are expensive but i can’t believe they’re that expensive. If they’re not profitable then i have to assume that’s a decision they’re making.

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