• dunestorm@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Unpopular Opinion: I don’t like ads as much as anyone, I’d rather YouTube monetises 1440p and 4k content instead of forcing people to watch ads. YouTube is an extremely expensive business to run, so it being free forever is completely unsustainable.

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      1 year ago

      Google doesn’t pay taxes. They save something like 3-4 billion a year not paying taxes.

      It’s entirely sustainable.

    • KneeTitts@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      so it being free forever is completely unsustainable.

      Well they own a lot of the infrastructure that makes youtube possible, which means they are keeping their own costs a lot lower than people think. I believe a lot of the ‘its unsustainable!!’, or ‘it makes no money!!’ rhetoric we are hearing is come straight from the google PR dept.

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      1 year ago

      A lot of devices still don’t run much more than 1080p so theres not a big audience for what you suggested.

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            Those also have firefox, you wanna compare the install count on that?

            Not very many people actually use adblock, compared to who dont. A lot easier to just buy a machine and screen that can run 4k than figure out what the kids mean when they say “plugin”

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      1 year ago

      I doubt that is remotely enough to keep YouTube from being a moneysink for google

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        It’s not a money sink. They are using the data they collect to rake in cash. Don’t let the fact the money is made by a different business unit fool you into thinking Google is struggling.

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        It doubt its as big of a money sink as we are being told… sounds like google PR working overtime there to me