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[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago (3 children)

just make it a subscription service already and see how many people remain...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

They have and most users are still around because the alternatives are far too light on content. The creators drive the show, not the users.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

They did. The subscription service still shows ads.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

This is not true.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Do you mean the promoted content done by the youtubers themselves? Because there are no YouTube ads when you use Premum.

And Premium recently came out with a feature that makes it really easy to skip the promotional content.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

no, subscription only as in you can only watch if subscribed

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Subscribed what 🤔

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You do know you can subscribe already, right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

what I mean is a model where a subscription is required to watch anything. Even that is more graceful than the hacky 1 hour long youtube video solution to their problems.