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Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been F... by usefulcat on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @12:19AM (#46054429)
No one if forcing them to use ads for revenue; they could choose to start charging directly for the content. Seems to be working ok for Netflix.
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Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been F... by rkomorn on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @02:29AM (#46055020)
The same Netflix that started offering an ad-supported tier that's climbed to 190M global users?
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Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been F... by usefulcat on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @10:13AM (#46058134)
Yes, the same Netflix that gets ~90% of it's income from subscriptions.

I never claimed that ads can't be profitable; I was responding to a commenter who implied that ads are necessary in order to have a viable streaming business, which is very obviously not the case.

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Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been F... by rkomorn on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @12:56PM (#46060348)
And you're comparing YouTube and Netflix here, as similar (enough) streaming services that could use the same business model?
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