• lemmylurkaround@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is a long time coming. Who in their right mind thought that a service that allows pretty much anyone to upload gigabytes of videos would be free forever. I get that people don’t like ads, but the amount of outrage is overkill.

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      1 year ago

      Don’t care, there are billions of hours lifetime saved by adblocking.

      Nobody needs to defend this tech conglomerates, let them figure it out.

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        1 year ago

        What if the solution they come to is shutting the whole thing down? Isn’t a degraded add riddled experience better than nothing?

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          1 year ago

          Yes, maybe they got too big and are destined to fail at that point. They essentially have a monopoly in that space.

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          1 year ago

          Do you people really think that YouTube can pay five-year-old “influencers” millions of dollars a year because YouTube is losing money?

          What if the solution they come to is shutting the whole thing down?

          Good fucking riddance.

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              1 year ago

              They should close their doors to anyone they don’t want to have on their site, so other companies get a chance to compete. Why would we stop using it, i’m literally fine with ad-free Youtube, you’re the one having a problem with it.