> I don't think I have appreciated how much YouTube is kicking ass

2.7 Billion users

https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-n … amount-wbd

The Google-owned video streaming service generated $40.4 billion in ad revenue for 2025, exceeding the $37.8 billion total from its four closest competitors: Disney, Comcast’s NBCUniversal, Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery. That makes YouTube not just the largest single video platform, but the world’s largest media company by ad revenue, according to The Hollywood Reporter. 

Fuqing nutso.

YouTube Premium is an amazing deal.

Spanky wrote:YouTube Premium is an amazing deal.
It comes free with my mobile plan (Google Fi) plus includes Youtube Music (for my car) otherwise I don't think I'd pay for it.

AI is threatening Youtube's usefulness.   If someone was wise they would make a clone but with strict anti-AI policies (or required labeling).  A lot of people would jump to it.

Those 2 jooish bois from Stanford are fuqing geniuses. 

anon user #3 wrote:It comes free with my mobile plan (Google Fi) plus includes Youtube Music (for my car) otherwise I don't think I'd pay for it.
YouTube is not watchable with commercials. So, I can't contemplate any sane person who regularly watches it doing so without Premium unless they are stealing it.

Spanky wrote:YouTube is not watchable with commercials. So, I can't contemplate any sane person who regularly watches it doing so without Premium unless they are stealing it.
brave browser eliminates ads.
is that stealing?

 wrote:brave browser eliminates ads.
is that stealing?
I view it as a form of theft, yes.

You are shifting the cost onto others.

Spanky wrote:I view it as a form of theft, yes.

You are shifting the cost onto others.
Your sense of morality, as I understand it, is interesting.

Spanky wrote:YouTube Premium is an amazing deal.
 
Also there twice as many YT videos as people on the planet.

Spanky wrote:YouTube is not watchable with commercials. So, I can't contemplate any sane person who regularly watches it doing so without Premium unless they are stealing it.

 wrote:Your sense of morality, as I understand it, is interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygQ8mFo9cHY

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