[laserlight]

It upsets me to see YouTube Premium apologists despite all the hostile moves by YouTube. YouTube Premium is an extortion scheme. When there are enough paying customers, YouTube Premium will begin showing ads to them. They won't forget sugarcoating ads as being “unobtrusive” or “environment-supporting” or whatever. But guess what? If you don't want to see them, you can upgrade to YouTube Premium Plus and continue being an apologist.

[mschuster91]

> YouTube Premium is an extortion scheme.

One might also say it was unsustainable from the start, video is incredibly expensive to host and especially moderate.

All we're seeing right now is the beginning of the end of the ad-financed world. Someone has to pay the bills in the end and advertisement spending is on the way down, more and more of it is going to influencers/TTL instead of traditional ATL/BTL marketing.

[hsbauauvhabzb]

While that may be true, subscription services are a capitalist move that’s pricing premium well above profit margins.

‘YouTube is failing because free tier is too expensive to be offset by ads’ and ‘YouTube premium is overly expensive’ can both be true. Shareholders care about maximising profits now, not overall product longevity.

[slig]

>When there are enough paying customers, YouTube Premium will begin showing ads to them.

We'll see. Until then, it's cheap and works fine.

[laserlight]

It used to be cheaper and work finer.

[wiseowise]

But think how hard it is for them to earn money to make up for all the billions they’ve used to create de facto monopoly in video space? Won’t someone think of poor capitalists trying to squeeze the niche dry?