Re:Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings
by CydeWeys on Thursday October 29, 2020 @11:23PM
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What if they just stopped the free version entirely and became paid-only like Netflix, Disney+, etc.? There's no reason they have to offer a free tier at all. To the extent that the paid tier makes them more money, I understand why they'd push people onto it.
Re:Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings
by benhurmarcel on Friday October 30, 2020 @05:03AM
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> What if they just stopped the free version entirely and became paid-only like Netflix, Disney+, etc.?
Those are cheaper than Youtube Premium, for more exclusive content.
Even with all of the pushing toward Premium they have done for me, the only values I even know are "you get the ad blocker experience without installing an ad blocker" and "we stop blocking picture-in-picture support".
I hate that ad blocking causes the channels I watch to not get financial support, but at this point I refuse to let Google be the middle-man and make money off of providing a purposely horrific experience.