Comment on What the fuck happened to YouTube!?
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Short answer: money
Long answer: As more and more ad sales started rolling in, YT was like: “Yes please! Can I have some more of that sweet sweet ad money?” Advertisers were like: “Yeah, sure why not. That seems to boost sales, so how much money can we dump into this black hole?” Some users were like: “WTF! I’m installing an adblocker.”
IndiBrony@lemmy.world 1 month ago
RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 month ago
Some people intentionally watch mobile ads and if paying youtube boots sales, people are clicking the ads and some may like them
fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc 1 month ago
It’s more like… YT realised they would never be profitable selling ads and needed a subscription model. No one wants to pay for a subscription so to improve the perceived value of the subscription they need to make the free offering unbearable.
_pete_@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This is pretty much it.
YouTube Premium is only remotely worth it because regular YouTube is an absolute shitshow
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 1 month ago
YouTube premium is worth it because of YouTube Music. I’ve never been impressed with the music recommendation algos of other streaming companies, but YTM has pretty good recommendations (possibly because they kept some decent things from Google Music). I’m kinda surprised the regular YT music recommendations are so bad compared to that of YTM.
_pete_@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’ve never been impressed with YouTube Music, the UI feels jank and it doesn’t work on half the devices in my home (compared to Spotify which just works on everything)