YouTube is running an experiment asking some users to disable their ad blockers or pay for a premium subscription, or they will not be allowed to watch videos.
I started paying for YT Premium years ago after I got fed up with the ads. I value the content and I think the service is actually really good so why not pay for using it? Premium users also generate more income for creators so that’s also a huge upside since I want the creators to thrive as well and keep on making good content on the platform. I think the basic ad-free subscription is only 4,99€ and Premium including YT Music is 9,99€ here in Finland so not bad at all compared to for example Netflix.
It’s one thing to replace Reddit since it’s basically just serving text content but replacing YouTube is not easy at all. Videos take huge amounts of space, bandwidth costs arms and legs after you gain any user base and then you also would have to be attractive to the content creators somehow. I think YT at it’s current state is worth the subscription cost and given how the platform works it’s also IMO completely reasonable to either force users to watch the ads or pay for ad-free subscription.
Yeah, the replicated youtube we’d need to either have a lot of money for hosting or use a decentralized model. The second option isnt even that feasible though.
I disagree to a degree. They are a company and we shouldn’t expect to enjoy their service for free, but they have made the service worse and worse with their invasive ads and expensive pricing structure. Where I am, the premium is like €16 and the alternative is 30 second ads before I can change videos.
Yesterday I was playing GoW and looking at really short walkthroughs and kept getting new unskippable 20-30 second ads even if I clicked into the wrong vid and started a new one straight away.
They are also incredibly profitable as it is so every new addition is making customer experience worse solely for more profit not to mention recent changes in payouts to smaller creators and most frustrating of all, their weaponised copyright claims system which goes against fair usage.
I don’t think they get to operate at the level they do, with such a poorly trated user base and creator space and demand what they demand.
I started paying for YT Premium years ago after I got fed up with the ads. I value the content and I think the service is actually really good so why not pay for using it? Premium users also generate more income for creators so that’s also a huge upside since I want the creators to thrive as well and keep on making good content on the platform. I think the basic ad-free subscription is only 4,99€ and Premium including YT Music is 9,99€ here in Finland so not bad at all compared to for example Netflix.
It’s one thing to replace Reddit since it’s basically just serving text content but replacing YouTube is not easy at all. Videos take huge amounts of space, bandwidth costs arms and legs after you gain any user base and then you also would have to be attractive to the content creators somehow. I think YT at it’s current state is worth the subscription cost and given how the platform works it’s also IMO completely reasonable to either force users to watch the ads or pay for ad-free subscription.
Yeah, the replicated youtube we’d need to either have a lot of money for hosting or use a decentralized model. The second option isnt even that feasible though.
I disagree to a degree. They are a company and we shouldn’t expect to enjoy their service for free, but they have made the service worse and worse with their invasive ads and expensive pricing structure. Where I am, the premium is like €16 and the alternative is 30 second ads before I can change videos.
Yesterday I was playing GoW and looking at really short walkthroughs and kept getting new unskippable 20-30 second ads even if I clicked into the wrong vid and started a new one straight away.
They are also incredibly profitable as it is so every new addition is making customer experience worse solely for more profit not to mention recent changes in payouts to smaller creators and most frustrating of all, their weaponised copyright claims system which goes against fair usage.
I don’t think they get to operate at the level they do, with such a poorly trated user base and creator space and demand what they demand.