• Pekka@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    Although not nice for people that can’t afford or don’t want YouTube premium, this makes a lot of sense. Hosting videos costs a lot of money, and I doubt the YouTube Premium subscribers pay even nearly enough to pay for the hosting of all these videos. Personally I just have YouTube Premium as this also gives more money to the creators that make these videos.

    I think an Open Source alternative would also have a lot of trouble with receiving enough funding to stay up. It would require a lot more donation compared to hosting mostly text based sites like Lemmy.

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      1 year ago

      Premium more than covers costs, with a reasonable profit margin included. That’s what it really costs to host and serve that much data.

      • Wintermute@lemmy.villa-straylight.social
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        1 year ago

        I think GP is saying the the total income from Premium doesn’t cover the cost of running all of Youtube, not that a single premium subscription doesn’t cover that one user’s costs, which it obviously does.

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          1 year ago

          Ah okay yeah I can see that reading. I think Premium has been growing well, so hopefully that’ll change in the future!