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YouTube is loading slower for users with ad blockers yet again::YouTube users have noticed annoying delays and some features disabled when using ad blockers.
YouTube is loading slower for users with ad blockers yet again::YouTube users have noticed annoying delays and some features disabled when using ad blockers.
Imagine paying for content. What’s the saying? If it’s free you are the product?
Anyway, I paid long before the AdBlock crackdown.
Idk man, paying for YT premium feels like paying for an ad-free experience, not content. Like my subscription would be going to YT, not the creators who made the content.
You forget that YouTube was always free in the before times of long long ago. Content was free and delivered flawlessly. Minimal ads. Maybe banner ads or something. Now it’s ads every few minutes.
That’s obviously not sustainable. At some point they need to recover expenses on all their infrastructure and development. It can either be through ads or a subscription model. Alternatively they shut down permanently. Which do you want?
At this point, I’m fine with it shutting down. If it shut down, creators would go somewhere else, we could end up with something much better. i won’t watch youtube if I have to watch minutes of ads before the video, and more throughout the video. Hard fucking pass.
Ok. Then stop watching instead of complaining. I don’t watch ads either.
They had paid for it for years. The sustainability relied on the range of services vs the service itself. For example, Walmart doesn’t really profit on big tvs. Typically the markup is negative. They combat this with the price of add on devices, wall mounts, hdmi cables, etc. It’s not a this or that for me. It’s the choice of the company to change it up to be more profitable.
Let’s be real, the point of a business is to make money. More money = more success, right? But what happens when you reach one billion dollars? Is one more billion more successful?
This is where my brain says fuck you. One billon means you’ve won. Stop being a greedy dick.
Yes. With the intent of making a profit eventually. Or they wouldn’t have.
What is YouTube going to “combat” with if not advertising or subscriptions…?
One billion means nothing if you’re spending tens of billions per year to continue operating. I’m not suggesting the CEO of YouTube deserves to get richer. I’m saying the company has operational expenses and investments that require some level of profitability, and “free for everyone forever” is literally just not a viable option.
I just bypass google entirely by hosting my own modified invidious instance and nuked my account.
Free, no clutter, blazing fast. Took maybe 20 minutes to setup.