Originally Posted by
DroneDog
YouTube is cutting its own throat in the name of greed; they are now trying to convince viewers to pay some 12 GBP per month to go ad-free. Given they get all of their content for free and have zero creation costs, they deem they can charge more than Amazon prime or Netflix, who do have to pay for the production of the content.
Yes, they do need to make a few quid to cover costs, but a less intrusive advertising model would work better; this recent move and the increased saturation of their videos with ads is driving people to Rumble etc. This is pure greed and a massive miscalculation on their part.
They do pay the video creators, you know. Doesn’t really work any differently than your favourite streaming service in that regard, except the amount of quality content is much higher, albeit demanding to filter theough to find the gold.