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Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium" (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by cypherpunks@lemmy.ml to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40372957

fyi:

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp lets you download videos (from youtube and also hundreds of other sites)

for desktop, https://mpv.io/ is free and lets you watch youtube (or any other video) at even more and faster speeds than youtube premium does, among many other features

for android, https://newpipe.net/ lets you play youtube in the background (and download videos, and block ads, ...)

https://ublockorigin.com/ blocks ads everywhere (and yes it does still work on youtube, at least in firefox anyway)

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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe the example was a poor one, but the idea was to show that these companies have so much money, that im not going to feel sympathy for them needing even more.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 0 points 1 week ago

Ok let's take a look at the numbers. They might be unreasonable I dont know.

I couldn't find YouTube's profit or net income. So I'm going off the 2024 net income for alphabet which was 100b

YouTube is considered to be about 30% of alphabets valuation.

Let's assume YouTube's net income 2024 was 30b

Now they have 2.54 billion users. Divide that up and its about $12 profit per user and that is in their best year due to the election driving massive 30% increases in traffic and ad revenue.

I think $12 profit per user per year is reasonable margins.