YouTube intensifies fight against ad blockers showing pop-ups, and users are frustrated | Blocking ad-block users::undefined

  • Aux@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, good luck hosting a high quality video streaming service for free and eating up millions of dollars in losses.

    • funkless_eck
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      then don’t do something for the benefit of humanity if you can’t handle not having infinite line-go-up. Numbers aren’t easily found but it looks like they generated north of a billion in profit, not revenue, profit.

      If a billion, after all bills are paid, is not enough. Give it to someone to whom a billion is enough.

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          companies enshittify themselves not to make money but to make more money than they did 3 months ago, repeat indefinitely.

          If you didn’t have to meet that metric, and were happy with generating a billion dollars a year and didn’t have to make it 1.3B by next year, and 1.6B by the following, then you wouldn’t have to shittify your product to do so.

          So when people are like “oh but poor YouTube won’t make any money if they make their product user friendly” don’t mean they will make no money, it’s that they will fall short of making 30% more money than last year and “only” make 10% more than last year.

          (all numbers made up for illustrative purposes only)

          • Aux@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            all numbers made up for illustrative purposes only

            That’s your problem here. YouTube’s revenue growth is less than 2% YoY. That’s below inflation. Meaning they effectively lose money.

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              Where did you get that number from?

              And Inflationary costs are taken into account before profit, so no, they aren’t losing money.

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        1 year ago

        YouTube only existed for about 20 months before Google acquired them

      • Aux@lemmy.world
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        It didn’t exist that long. And it didn’t allow you to watch 4K or even Full HD videos.

    • Phegan@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Breaking up big tech doesn’t mean that we all have to host our own YouTube.

      • Aux@lemmy.world
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        It doesn’t. But you need to have a replacement. So, go ahead, and create a free video hosting!