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YouTube is axing its ad-free Premium Lite subscription plan - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Sibbo@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@beehaw.org

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I was happily using this for a year or so now. Feels fairer than using an ad blocker. But now they apparently want more money out of people. Feels like some sort of internet video apocalypse is happening, where the services become extremely fragmented and expensive, like YouTube, netflix, hbo, Hulu, Disney+ and whatnot. Each wants some 10-20€ out of your pocket.

I guess that means back to ad blockers and piracy...

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[-] Dee_Imaginarium@beehaw.org 12 points 9 months ago

There is a fediverse version of YouTube already called PeerTube. But people are finding it's incredibly expensive to host video streaming servers and is a large part why it hasn't really taken off.

[-] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 9 months ago

Well, that and a host of other problems with its interface. Nobody's very interconnected, so it's hard to find videos.

[-] mojo@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

Not to mention you're paying for it, where the goal for making videos to to get paid lol. Peertube has no ability to monetize, so even if the hosting was somehow solved, the monetization would prevent it from taking off.