I'm on it daily. A ton of hours between watching videos and enjoying the music catalogue. It's definitely the only reason I don't mind paying premium. No complaints.

[–] KrankyKong@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (10 children)

My unpopular opinion is that YouTube has every right to enforce ads on their platform if you're not paying for the service.

[–] setto@fed.dyne.org 11 points 3 months ago (9 children)

The service where they crowd sourced 2/3 of their catalogue from "sharecare" pirate bears?

[–] Evilschnuff 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Infrastructure is not free.

[–] sysop@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Absolutely not our problem. They can come up with other business models. Maybe they can resurrect one of the hundreds of projects/business models from them at https://killedbygoogle.com/ and run with that

[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's much cheaper than the money they make on it though. Hence all the profits.

[–] KrankyKong@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Youtube operated at a loss for years

[–] Zamundaaa@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It hasn't operated at a loss anymore for years you mean?

[–] KrankyKong@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago

You mean when they started playing ads?

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