And if all the "tech people" pay a fixed charge for YouTube regardless of how much they actually use it, they'll remove ads entirely, right?
Get real. Fuck ads. Nobody should ever have to deal with them.
Get real. Fuck ads. Nobody should ever have to deal with them.
1. deal with ads,
2. pay to support the service without ads,
3. use adblocking and be a free rider off people doing #1, or
4. expect web services to be given to you as an act of charity
You and I are both doing #3, but let's not pretend it's some act of noble civil disobedience. It is good for us that others are subjected to ads, as it allows us to get useful services for free without having to be.
Which is also now they are abusing their market position built by cutting all other companies that could do the same but simply could not get past dumping price of free by VC fueled "startups". Which I believe some government org should look into.
Second of all they benefit by externalizing all negative effects of their platforms where they don't handle moderation of offensive comments towards creators which causes lots of psychological damage. There is whole load of evidence they even set it up in ways to specifically get people dependent on dopamine from watching just one more video.
Lastly - cable TV in US was paid with no ads and when they found out they can earn more money they still put in ads.
For me it is noble act of civil disobedience.
Plenty of people are perfectly content with the model of free ad-supported services. Who are you to step between them and those services and say no?
So you're addicted and can't stop now?
It is bad that anyone is ever subjected to ads.
We're talking about this right now on a web service given to us as an act of charity (modulo the occasional sponsored job listing), and I'd like more of the web to be like that. Refusing to participate in the ad revenue model makes sites like this more likely to arise.
I think your modulo is missing some aspects. How many VCs are as famous as YC among tech workers? How many of them have as much credibility in the tech scene as YC? How much of that comes from this site?
I don't know how much it costs to run it, but I assume it's peanuts compared with what YC gets out of it. I wouldn't confuse altruistic charity (e.g. donating anonymously to a cause you don't personally benefit from) with what boils down to sponsorship and getting the goodwill that comes with it.
My day to day "job" is something for the public good and I do it without getting paid for it. But it still has to make money to survive even with that.
When we’re talking about consistently serving video at the scale they are, those costs won’t be minute.
Obviously they’re looking to turn a profit (if not profiting already), but I don’t think the situation changes dramatically either way.
What else do you want?
You want it to be free for you where you don't have to pay anything to use it? Seems like you don't have a realistic view of what it costs to run / build / maintain this.
I love "the confidence" as I think that is what makes a great entrepreneur who says something like "Oh that is easy, I can do that", cut to 10 years later and a lot of pain, and maybe they have...