Unpopular Opinion: I don’t like ads as much as anyone, I’d rather YouTube monetises 1440p and 4k content instead of forcing people to watch ads. YouTube is an extremely expensive business to run, so it being free forever is completely unsustainable.
It's not a money sink. They are using the data they collect to rake in cash. Don't let the fact the money is made by a different business unit fool you into thinking Google is struggling.
so it being free forever is completely unsustainable.
Well they own a lot of the infrastructure that makes youtube possible, which means they are keeping their own costs a lot lower than people think. I believe a lot of the 'its unsustainable!!', or 'it makes no money!!' rhetoric we are hearing is come straight from the google PR dept.
Those also have firefox, you wanna compare the install count on that?
Not very many people actually use adblock, compared to who dont. A lot easier to just buy a machine and screen that can run 4k than figure out what the kids mean when they say "plugin"