• madcaesar@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’d pay 5$ a month just for YouTube, I don’t want all the extra bullshit. YouTube doesn’t produce any content themselves, they don’t have to hire actors writers and make big budget movies.

    They are literally just hosting content and paying creators cents. Yet they want to charge Hulu / Netflix money.

    Gtfo with that. I cancelled Netflix earlier this year because it was getting too expensive as well for what it was providing.

    • loakang@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      They might not produce anything, but on the flip side they also are the only ones on that list that have to be prepared to increase data storage by hundreds of hours per minute! And that doesn’t include multiple copies for different quality etc.

      Honestly YouTube is probably one of the few companies that deserves to be able to raise their prices unless they start deleting old content en masse so they don’t have to infinitely scale.

      That being said, I wouldn’t pay $14. It’s just taking advantage of matching all the other streaming services raising their prices, something being done purely out of greed in the name of profits. Everything is overpriced now, I hate this.