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Re:Tell HN: YouTube beat uBlock Origin on Firefox by rchaud on Saturday September 02, 2023 @08:56AM (#37361100)
I'm not conflicted because no amount of $10 subscriptions will be enough for them to survive independently without being docked to the Google mothership.

Proof: YT Premium costs $14/mo. now. Would anyone say there's been a 40% improvement in the quality of the product?

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Re:Tell HN: YouTube beat uBlock Origin on Firefox by Pigalowda on Saturday September 02, 2023 @11:27PM (#37367466)
No but there’s been significant erosion of $ purchasing power
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Re:Tell HN: YouTube beat uBlock Origin on Firefox by rchaud on Sunday September 03, 2023 @10:09AM (#37370556)
Youtube's single largest capital expense is going to be Google Cloud. They're not paying market rates for that, and in any case, GCP pricing hasn't gone up to a level where YT would need to increase pricing by 40%.

They simply do not what their profitability price point is. And they never will, as they're not independent of Google.

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