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this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2023
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I get that we all think entertainment products should be free but in a capitalist economy server space costs money. To deliver and maintain petabytes of data takes vast resources and in our society, those resources cost money. They keep it running through direct payment or auctioning ad space. So if you don’t want to get premium then they still need to pay for the upkeep of the service you’re using for free. Thus ads.
People already pay, with data and watching ads, they are pushing for montly revenue making the costumers angry with abusive ads. Youtube is not some poor beggar it is a company who seek never ending profit. They will punish the weak link, who can't do something about, they could just increasce ad price, but the announcers can push back so it's a no go.