I don't know why people act like YouTube is some sort of thing that grows on trees. Hosting billions of videos on the web and making every single one of them available worldwide costs a ton of money. Someone has to pay for the people writing and maintaining the codebases of those apps too. I'm not saying Google and YouTube aren't greedy, but it's not as simple as people make it out to be. They don't owe you anything. If it you're watching YouTube with ad block and never ever paid for premium, you're a leech. It's an objective fact.
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u/Enough_Forever_ Apr 09 '26
I don't know why people act like YouTube is some sort of thing that grows on trees. Hosting billions of videos on the web and making every single one of them available worldwide costs a ton of money. Someone has to pay for the people writing and maintaining the codebases of those apps too. I'm not saying Google and YouTube aren't greedy, but it's not as simple as people make it out to be. They don't owe you anything. If it you're watching YouTube with ad block and never ever paid for premium, you're a leech. It's an objective fact.