The people saying “just pay for premium” don’t seem to understand that in the beginning YouTube was free and had no ads. When google purchased it they promised to keep it that way. Then they slowly started with ads. At first they were pretty unobtrusive banners, then a short skippable preroll then multiple preroll then unskippable preroll. The reason I refuse to pay for premium is because Google created this issue and is now selling the solution. I refuse to be a part of that. It has nothing to do with the creators.
The cost of hosting YouTube itself doesn’t pay for itself unfortunately. They could get away with it back then because the internet itself wasn’t that big. Therefore, we need to KICK THE NORMIES OUT OF OUR INTERNET. WE WERE HERE FIRST, REEEEEE
ReVanced and Grayjay do the same thing but for free and are open source so long as Google keeps trying to engineer enshitification the proud people of the open source community will engineer a solution.
Hmm weird take. Yes these are solutions to the Ad’s problem from the user side but they are just UI Wrapper for Youtube so they don’t have any costs for hosting & providing all the content. So yea they don’t need to monetize.
This doesn’t however fix the problem for Youtube itself. How are they supposed to pay for cost & make a profit?
I totally agree that Youtube with all the Ad’s is unusable (I’m using an AdBlocker) but Youtube is still a Profit orientated company so how do we fix this dilemma.
Youtube Premium feels not worth it to most people because Youtube was always “free” so paying for it now makes people go like “WTF?”. So Ad’s & enshitification was/is the only way to make a profit for Youtube. I don’t like it either but this is reality.
If you have a solution for them I’m sure they would pay you handsomely for it.
The people saying “just pay for premium” don’t seem to understand that in the beginning YouTube was free and had no ads. When google purchased it they promised to keep it that way. Then they slowly started with ads. At first they were pretty unobtrusive banners, then a short skippable preroll then multiple preroll then unskippable preroll. The reason I refuse to pay for premium is because Google created this issue and is now selling the solution. I refuse to be a part of that. It has nothing to do with the creators.
The cost of hosting YouTube itself doesn’t pay for itself unfortunately. They could get away with it back then because the internet itself wasn’t that big. Therefore, we need to KICK THE NORMIES OUT OF OUR INTERNET. WE WERE HERE FIRST, REEEEEE
ReVanced and Grayjay do the same thing but for free and are open source so long as Google keeps trying to engineer enshitification the proud people of the open source community will engineer a solution.
The new Revanced is Morphe. 👍
Hmm weird take. Yes these are solutions to the Ad’s problem from the user side but they are just UI Wrapper for Youtube so they don’t have any costs for hosting & providing all the content. So yea they don’t need to monetize. This doesn’t however fix the problem for Youtube itself. How are they supposed to pay for cost & make a profit?
I totally agree that Youtube with all the Ad’s is unusable (I’m using an AdBlocker) but Youtube is still a Profit orientated company so how do we fix this dilemma. Youtube Premium feels not worth it to most people because Youtube was always “free” so paying for it now makes people go like “WTF?”. So Ad’s & enshitification was/is the only way to make a profit for Youtube. I don’t like it either but this is reality.
If you have a solution for them I’m sure they would pay you handsomely for it.
I would totally pay for youtube if it was even remotely decently priced.
You can get multiple concurrents on disney+, Hulu or Netflix with blockbuster content for the same price as youtube’s slop filled premium family.
Seriously, the service is worth maybe $9 a month. I don’t want their music, i won’t use it, the quality is crap.
I mean, as it grew the hosting/staffing costs went up as well. There’s no way it could have continued to be completely free.
That’s still a bait and switch though.