in retrospect, third-party apps were gonna end as long as reddit refused to release the chat API stuff to devs

they were already on cold feet but the fee raises were just them going all in

YouTube probably isn’t even profitable

Google has been losing money on it for years and now everyone is mad they’re trying to cut costs and make a profit

my point is that the current solutions these billion dollar companies that significantly control our society are: 1) blast users with ads or 2) charge them an expensive sub fee.

can they not develop something better?

YouTube premium is 100% wourth it

not yet, there is only one issue with the costs, bandwidth

video compression has to advance massively

meta makes money on social media ads cause they have mostly image and text based content

youtube has to buy insane amounts of bandwidth all over the world to provide video

why do you think there isn’t another youtube competitor? cause it’s a bad business that can’t turn a profit

Google hides the costs by showing it as server costs for Google and then hides profits in Ad revenue

Google makes so much on ads on website content that they’ve been probably just eating the L to keep YouTube growing

when video compression gets advanced enough this won’t be a problem, Nvidia is working on AI based compression something like that could be the solution

TikTok also might not make money either, it isn’t clear because these companies hide these number

Doesn’t make sense. Where do you think free stuff is coming from ?

Y’all are so broke

No it doesn’t lmao

this. the only reason i chose youtube premium/music for my streaming sub is because i been using youtube to stream music/music videos way before apple music and spotify were even a thing. literally my most used app. 13$ a month is nothing. if you can’t afford that you shouldn’t even be on ktt go get some money instead.

it’s 13$ you guys sound broke af in this thread ngl

Watch YouTube on safari. When you get an ad jsut refresh and the ad should go away. As long as you’re in the video, ads won’t appear

youtube premium comes w youtube music which has a much bigger music library than spotify and apple music you wouldn’t need apple/spotify w youtube premium

yes. it does

yeah i am cheap f*** you hahahhah

im actually not, but how the f*** you think I got this way? yeah by being cheap

who cares if its ONE dollar? i aint paying for that s***! Im spending it on some ass!

I just got home from a job interview. Got accepted and its a huge upgrade from the job I got now

and guess what....? I STILL AINT PAYING FOR THIS S***

Yea I wish YouTube music was a lot better im using it right now because i share YouTube premium with my friend. It's great for being able to listen to stuff that not on streaming (freestyles etc) and watch music video when you want but along way behind other music streamers in general

i dont even pay for s*** these days man I just stack bread and steal s***

i guess if you need curated playlists and little radio shows and s*** like that then yea youtube music kinda lacking

but i know how to find new music on my own and don’t need playlists and radios and recs from a streaming app so never really been an issue

thought it was $20 getting this s*** rn the ads are crazy on apple tv

the only way im ever paying for anything is if i cant already get it for free

if you do wanna sub make sure you do it directly through the youtube website and it will be 13$

if you pay using apple subs then it costs 19$.

yeah i had no idea. got a free trial too

u should celebrate by buying a youtube premium subscription