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  • @TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    471 year ago

    Google is a multi trillion dollar company. They can afford to run youtube at a loss for decades, if not centuries to come.

    They don’t want to because they are greedy and “need” to grow their profits yearly.

    Get the fuck out of here with your bullshit ass shilling for a corporate entity that would kill you if it was profitable enough.

    • @Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Why would google run YouTube if it’s making negative profit? Seriously. Why would anyone do that?

      Am I greedy too because I expect my work to pay more than it costs me to live?

      • @TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        241 year ago

        Because of the insane amount of advertising they can do on the massive majority of people who don’t use adblock?

        Because they hold THE monopoly on video upload?

        There are many reasons why a company exists with no profit incentive.

      • @sznio@lemmy.world
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        51 year ago

        Because they’re a monopoly and should get nationalized to ensure they align with the citizens rather than with the greedy shareholders.

      • @jetsetdorito@lemm.ee
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        51 year ago

        I don’t like the idea that my YouTube premium money just goes into a big pool that’s divided among all creators whether I watched them or not. I block ads and subscribe to patreons of YouTubers I watch the most, I would probably pay a few dollars for YouTube premium.

        • @SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net
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          21 year ago

          Premium only goes to the creators you watch though and not everyone? Unless I misunderstood things or you have a source for it?

        • @Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
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          11 year ago

          Yeah I’d much rather prefer a system when portion of the money goes to google to cover their costs, but the majority of it would be divided between the creators whose videos I’ve been watching during that month.

    • @isthingoneventhis@lemmy.world
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      41 year ago

      Not to mention they were fine without ads and forcing content creators to spew the whole “like and subscribe or else the algorithm will hunt me down” bullshit. This is all because of corporate greed, it’s so disgusting. They just want to get on the subscription gravy train because it lets them have their cake and eat it too, meanwhile content creators are left out in the cold even though they’re the only reason people still use YT at this point.