• taaz@biglemmowski.win
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    1 year ago

    They take away dislike button, something I consider essential to navigate content, the algorithm is like a hyperactive drug dealer always ready to sell you the next big hit thing “you might like watch” and according to google itself the last YT revenue was 29.24 billion USD - so, it’s not like they are going to sink without it isn’t it.

    So, yeah no thank you. They are doing extremely well, this is just squeezing every penny they can out of normal people so that the line goes up.

    If they also stopped selling all my online data as a part of that subscription then I might consider it but it’s hard to trust companies these days.

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      1 year ago

      last YT revenue was 29.24 billion USD

      That’s a huge number, but it is meaningless. It’s more important to focus on profit (or net income) and unfortunately those numbers aren’t as easy to get. You can see all the financials but while Youtube gets revenue numbers, how much they pay to partners, and they spend on google services isn’t itemized.

      They are probably operating at a profit, but definitely not 29 billiuon dollars of profit