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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Whats the percentage of YT users who use Adblock tools? i think it's a tiny number, mainly the power users.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I'm in the camp that says you should really pay for premium. It's so worth the money. For every premium user that watches a video the creator gets a pretty good cut. Something like 55%. Blocking ads doesn't really hurt the creator too much. Your mainly just sticking it to Google. But if your someone who watches alot of YouTube consider premium, to help your favorite creators more. Especially you get Music included.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I would consider it if YouTube had built in sponsorblock since I find YouTube videos unwatchable without it that I don't bother casting videos to the TV, and go through other methods to retain sponsorblock functionality.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

They can choke

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I never thought YouTube's business model was very sustainable. As the world economy goes down, so does the value of ads. Creators or consumers need to pay up for all the bandwidth and storage. The question is about what is a reasonable price. Are low tiers for $3/mo. possible along with premium 4k options or does everything need to be at more than that?

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