[fluoridation]

>Then you're watching the wrong videos.

Re-read the sentence you're replying to. "99% of videos on youtube", not "99% of videos I watch".

>You can easily skip these, not sure what the issue is here.

You can also ad-block. The issue is that even paying for YouTube isn't enough to not see any ads on YouTube.

>Additionally, there has never been a greater investment made on storing and distributing video like the one Google made on YouTube.

YouTube merely provides the logistical support. It's not a production company. That is, it doesn't seek out talent to produce content for it. This is the difference the GP is highlighting.

[JAlexoid]

> "99% of videos on youtube", not "99% of videos I watch".

And in the context, this is even less sensible. 99% of content on Netflix is what "you" don't watch. So there's literally no difference on that point for YT and Netflix.

> The issue is that even paying for YouTube isn't enough to not see any ads on YouTube.

Native ads are skippable and are already providing revenue for the creator - skipping them doesn't affect creator's income. Ad-block screws over the creators. There's a difference...

> YouTube merely provides the logistical support.

Have you ever worked at a production company? Because providing legal, logistical and marketing support is also what production companies do - that is what YouTube provides to creators. If you apply the same logic, then Universal Media Group isn't a production company - because they also primarily provide those functions.

Not to mention that YouTube has produced, may even still produce, original content.

[fluoridation]

>99% of content on Netflix is what "you" don't watch.

"I don't watch this" and "I would never watch this under any circumstance" are different.

>Have you ever worked at a production company? Because providing legal, logistical and marketing support is also what production companies do - that is what YouTube provides to creators. If you apply the same logic, then Universal Media Group isn't a production company - because they also primarily provide those functions.

What you're saying is that production companies provide logistics, and YouTube provides logistics, therefore YouTube is a production company. Socrates is a man, and I am a man, therefore I am Socrates.

>Not to mention that YouTube has produced, may even still produce, original content.

Sure. But the vast majority of the content that drives traffic to YouTube is not produced by them.

[JAlexoid]

> "I don't watch this" and "I would never watch this under any circumstance" are different.

OK. How is this even relevant. Both YouTube and Netflix have easily over 90% of content that "I would never watch under any circumstance"(which is already a false statement on your part).

> What you're saying is that production companies provide logistics

Way to ignore literally everything else I wrote.

> But the vast majority of the content that drives traffic to YouTube is not produced by them.

Same goes for Netflix

When you move the goalpost, make sure that where you move it supports your argument.