←back to thread

990 points smitop | 2 comments | | HN request time: 0.518s | source
Show context
brentm ◴[] No.44330230[source]
YouTube Premium costs about the same as 2 cold brew coffees and is worth the money.
replies(5): >>44330264 #>>44330289 #>>44330309 #>>44330310 #>>44330339 #
Barrin92 ◴[] No.44330310[source]
Paying 13 bucks per month, which is a non trivial amount for a lot of people if it competes with other subcription services, merely to block ads on a website that doesn't even produce its own content is in my opinion one of the worst deals on the internet.

That's equivalent to a Netflix subscription, which puts what, 20 billion into original content each year?

replies(3): >>44330387 #>>44332254 #>>44333278 #
bitpush ◴[] No.44330387[source]
> doesn't even produce its own content

How do you think those video bits get streamed all around the world? Magic?

replies(2): >>44330646 #>>44333288 #
icehawk ◴[] No.44333288[source]
People make the videos, and then sometimes youtube pays them for it.
replies(1): >>44333615 #
1. pyth0 ◴[] No.44333615[source]
People make videos because there is a platform which makes it incredibly easy to share that video all across the planet without cost to them. And in turn that platform has an enormous base of viewers for that content. To suggest that a world without YouTube (or a similar service) would look the same is ludicrous.
replies(1): >>44337399 #
2. icehawk ◴[] No.44337399[source]
> To suggest that a world without YouTube (or a similar service) would look the same is ludicrous.

It could be ludicrous, if that argument were being made.