People are out to lunch on this whole situation. Try running a service that hosts somewhere between 2 and 3 billion Gigabytes of data. Where basically anyone on the planet can upload gigs of video and YouTube will still make it available 10 years later. You are never going to crowd source that, ever. I also pay for premium and I get at least 5x the value of any other streaming service. Just on home renovations, it's probably saved me 10k+ being able to watch tutorials about every kind of repair.

[–] Xanis@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Youtube Premium is literally the only subscription service I pay for. Apart from your reasons there is one very solid reason behind my choice:

I can find shows and movies for free online if I bothered trying, it isn't difficult. I cannot easily do the same for Youtube content.

[–] TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

The best part is: Youtube doesn't even do any of that. It's the creators that try to keep other streams off the web, because they wanna drive traffic to their own channel.

Idk why, but it's just funny to me.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Youtube can show ads and offers subscription without being this shitty though. Just look on how popular region-specific video services like niconico (japan) or bilibili (china) operate. They also have ads and subscription, but nowhere as crazy as google adding multiple video ads upon ads and pick a fight with ad blocker users (which used to be a minority when google haven't aggressively pushed more and more ads. the current popularity of adblockers today is google's own doing). This is only possible because google has killed off competitors in western market and now it's time for cashing out.

[–] conorab@lemmy.conorab.com 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm very curious about why YouTube allow users to upload what seems like unlimited footage in 4K HDR and keep it around indefinitely. Only guess is they don't want to miss out on the next big YouTuber. I upload a lot of video for very few views. There is no way in hell that Google make money from my account.

[–] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

I'm starting to wonder, what will YouTube do once it stops being remotely sustainable to run?

Is more efficient video compression being developed faster than people are uploading content?

Like, at some point, they might just run out of space and will have to purge millions of videos.