• iegod@lemm.ee
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      1 day 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.

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        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.

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        24 hours 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.