[londons_explore]

14 dollars a month for a decade is $1680.

To save $1680 I'd prefer to just use an adblocker (which I have done for the past decade)

[carlosjobim]

The hacker boy one day came back from school panting, sweating and exhausted. His father asked him:

- What happened to you?

- I figured that if I ran behind the bus, I'll save the $3 dollars the ticket costs-

The hacker father smacked his son hard on the head and cried:

- You fool! To run behind a bus like that! You should have ran behind a taxi instead and you would have saved at least $50 dollars!

Then they both watched YouTube together the rest of the evening, thinking eagerly about all the juicy money they would save over the next decade.

[hiccuphippo]

3 dollars is like a week of bus fares here and I remember a friend would walk back home from school to keep half the money.

[hhh]

Yes, and you choose to risk losing the most important platform to humanity next to Wikipedia. Youtube should be a public service.

[Rastonbury]

Insane hyperbole here, this guy's adblock = risking humanity losing it's 2nd most important platform owned by one of the most profitable companies in the world

OpenAI thought of it first, should YouTube get a government backstop too?

[graemep]

I am dubious about the importance of Youtube. If it disappeared tomorrow how long would it take for most videos to reappear elsewhere? Some of the creators I watch do have the videos available elsewhere. Veritasium is on Odysee, lots of people are on Nebula (and release videos there that are not on Youtube), etc.

I think there is a good argument that having a single dominant platform has been harmful.

[fwip]

Imo, most videos would never be re-uploaded somewhere else. Currently-active creators that choose to keep a backup copy of their videos are probably the minority of creators.

[NaomiLehman]

YouTube wouldn't exist as a public service. there would be no incentive to make videos

[Kbelicius]

Why wouldn't there be incentives? If you are thinking monetary then the existence of youtube disproves your statement.

[latexr]

Let’s not get too hasty comparing YouTube to Wikipedia. Maybe what you watch on YouTube is interesting and educational, but let’s not forget it’s also a major platform for misinformation, propaganda, conspiracy theories, radicalisation, scams…