I do not agree with their changes & policies but I think you underestimate the market share Youtube has in this area.
Also you are not the average Youtube user (being on Lemmy and all) so you should think about how the average user interacts with the platform (they don’t care about Ad’s & don’t know how to install an Ad Blocker).
I think Youtube can do a lot more shit before normal people would start to jump ship, but even then what are the alternatives for them? Peertube etc. don’t have the content they watch…
Sure they have a huge market share. That’s simply from being the first video-sharing platform and being from Google.
There is nothing unique or irreplaceable about them and plenty alternatives do exactly the same thing now.
Only better without ads.
Problem is there are too many and divide the small leftover market share between them.
When/if that’s fixed people will not look back.
‘normal’ people choose VLC now and other FOSS.
YT is not their favorite sportsteam, they have no loyalty to them.
On the contrary. If someone insists on playing YT music for friends and it’s interrupted by an ad, everyone’s annoyed.
And content is shared on as many platforms as they can since it’s free and they want as much viewers as possible.
I do not agree with their changes & policies but I think you underestimate the market share Youtube has in this area. Also you are not the average Youtube user (being on Lemmy and all) so you should think about how the average user interacts with the platform (they don’t care about Ad’s & don’t know how to install an Ad Blocker). I think Youtube can do a lot more shit before normal people would start to jump ship, but even then what are the alternatives for them? Peertube etc. don’t have the content they watch…
Sure they have a huge market share. That’s simply from being the first video-sharing platform and being from Google.
There is nothing unique or irreplaceable about them and plenty alternatives do exactly the same thing now.
Only better without ads.
Problem is there are too many and divide the small leftover market share between them.
When/if that’s fixed people will not look back.
‘normal’ people choose VLC now and other FOSS.
YT is not their favorite sportsteam, they have no loyalty to them.
On the contrary. If someone insists on playing YT music for friends and it’s interrupted by an ad, everyone’s annoyed.
And content is shared on as many platforms as they can since it’s free and they want as much viewers as possible.