Another way of viewing this is Google intentionally lost money on Youtube for years in order to kill out competition. Now that competition has been eliminated and its network effects are firmly in place Google is has greatly degraded their service to grow revenue.
There's another industry that operates like this, your local drug dealer that gives away the first few hits to get you addicted then charges going forward.
first few hits to get you addicted then charges going forward.
Sorry, but this comparison doesn't hold water. Your ability to use Youtube is not a binary decision based on being a premium subscriber or not. Advertising has been a thing on the Internet for a while.
I'm a premium subscriber but feel like I was bullied into it rather than wanting. I can deal with the ad breaks and unskippable ads. But the skippable ads! If you let 2-3 in a row go by without skipping them, youtube starts throwing 45 minute long ads at you.
Like, I'm fine with ads, but why do I need to physically interact with them every 7 minutes or be punished.
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Another way of viewing this is Google intentionally lost money on Youtube for years in order to kill out competition. Now that competition has been eliminated and its network effects are firmly in place Google is has greatly degraded their service to grow revenue.
There's another industry that operates like this, your local drug dealer that gives away the first few hits to get you addicted then charges going forward.
first few hits to get you addicted then charges going forward.
Sorry, but this comparison doesn't hold water. Your ability to use Youtube is not a binary decision based on being a premium subscriber or not. Advertising has been a thing on the Internet for a while.
I'm a premium subscriber but feel like I was bullied into it rather than wanting. I can deal with the ad breaks and unskippable ads. But the skippable ads! If you let 2-3 in a row go by without skipping them, youtube starts throwing 45 minute long ads at you.
Like, I'm fine with ads, but why do I need to physically interact with them every 7 minutes or be punished.
Right out of the Rockefeller playbook. I thought we had a consensus on this matter a century ago.