• no banana@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I feel like youtube is losing sight of why users are paying for the service then.

    To me, personally, youtube is useful enough that I will keep paying to remove ads entirely (in combination with ublock). That being said, there will come a time when the value proposition is no longer balanced. Then I will stop paying, and probably stop using it as well.

    But as always with Google, I question whether their motive is to kill another service. They’re very competent at that specific thing.

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      3 days ago

      They just want users who are paying full freight as they know the ad business is in step decline.

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        3 days ago

        Is it in decline? I mean, I want to believe it, but I haven’t seen any hard data on that.

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          3 days ago

          It very much is and is talked about basically nonstop everytime the topic comes up from any content creator that’s been in the game for longer then a decade.

          The ad based system the internet is built on is unraveling.

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            3 days ago

            The internet isn’t built on it. The commercial websites who do not have other products (as in all the websites related to RL goods, stores,…) are.

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              3 days ago

              Exactly. If every ad-dependent website went offline tomorrow and all we were left with was Wikipedia, PeerTube, government/academia sites and a bunch of Geocities-esque “labor of love” hobbyist pages, nothing of value would be lost.

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                3 days ago

                True, but my point was that even a lot of the commercial websites that do have other products do not depend on ads, e.g. Amazon and all the other stores would still be there, every company offering a paid service would still be there, every company providing a service related to their RL goods (e.g. specs, drivers, product descriptions, lists of stores where you can buy them,…) would still be there.

                Advertising does not finance a very large percentage of the useful parts of the internet. And among those advertising financed websites that are useful a lot are essentially duplicates to get a chunk of the ad revenue without doing a lot of work (e.g. almost all news websites that just republish AP, Reuters,… content).

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            2 days ago

            content creator on youtube had to resort to patreon, brand deals and promotion to stay afloat.