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Does that mean if viewing numbers plummet they won't roll it out? wink wink, nudge nudge!
this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2025
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Very likely - but that’s not going to happen. Some people will watch less, some will complain but keep watching the same amount, and the majority will just take it as a fact of life and not change their behaviour.
I think we've seen enough changes in social media platforms over the past few decades to say that your claim is true until it's not. As payments to content creators fall, and as garbage postings increase, the actual value to the average user of the site is clearly decreasing. So we'll see how long YouTube is relevant.
If they circumvent uBlock, then PeerTube, here I come
Just means I will find something else to watch. I’d pay for ad-free YouTube if it didn’t cost as much as HBO.
And thus we say fare thee well - U-Toob