Looks like its over for me and youtube. Being told I cant watch because of an ad blocker.

Where is everyone moving to and using instead of youtube? I will just move to the same place.

  • gornius@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Ok, if I remember correctly, YouTube barely generates, but generates nonetheless revenue for Google. There are many ways to make more money without fucking over its users by cutting costs:

    • downgrade old videos with small watch count to 720p30

    • make people pay for hosting >1080p60 content

    • do not allow private/unlisted videos

    • straight up remove 10h looped videos - they take so much space, but are technically spam - both for bandwidth and storage

    And my go-to solution: focus on sponsorships as main source of revenue. They are the only ads I can tolerate and are actually effective from my experience. YouTube can just take a cut from every sponsorship on YouTube video and everyone will be happy.