Youtube has always claimed that it doesn’t turn a profit but I don’t believe them. My reasoning is that if the server costs are more than the revenue today, then they’re going to be worse tomorrow. A gorillian gigabytes of data are uploaded to that thing every nanosecond. A company can’t get exponentially less profitable every second and still survive. And what else is there to prop it up? Google ad results? No way is Youtube not profitable. They’re saying that to avoid tax.
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GrymEdm@lemmy.world 2 months agoI actually had trouble finding that out. It’s apparently a closely-guarded secret according to some tech websites. I do have this chart that says since 2017 YouTube ad revenue has been 7-11% of Google’s total revenue but I don’t know if that = profit.
splonglo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 2 months ago
Hosting a streaming service is incredibly expensive. Especially at the scale of YouTube. I can imagine YouTube is costing far more for Google than Search itself.
My guess is that YouTube has never really been profitable, which is why they’re pushing users to buy Premium.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
get firefox with ublock origin. block that garbage on mobile too.
Legend@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Just use any app like newpipe or pipepipe
TxzK@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
If you’re on Android, ReVanced. And if you’re on iOS, well get fucked or something, idk
drkt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I just use Firefox with extensions on mobile honestly
danafest@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Yeah I completely gave up on the app. Firefox with ublock is a blessing, internet in general is basically unusable on mobile without it.
Evilschnuff@feddit.de 2 months ago
In iOS you can use Yattee and link to an alternative Frontend. Works well for me.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I use adguard on ios, also a vpn btw, and blocks all ads in browser and blocks ads in yt videos in their app. Used yattee for a bit, but tbh I didn’t like the UX, then it stopped working so I switched
JTheFox@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Seconded on this one. I use Yattee with Piped as my frontend, with an account as well, and it’s been pretty solid so far.
mryessir@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
He explicitly told you to get lost or something, dude!
doubletandard@lemmy.world 2 months ago
didn’t work for piped.video and yewtu.be. which front end are you using?
Twitches@lemm.ee 2 months ago
You just got me free music, I couldn’t afford it anymore so I have to drop it. Thank you
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 months ago
On ios there’s brave browser and firefox focus.
FeatherConstrictor@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I’ve been using revanced for a year and something happened in the past couple of weeks where it just refuses to work and keeps sayi go there’s no internet connection :( I have uninstalled and reinstalled/patched things as per instructions and nothing.