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I paid for Lynda.com, and it could have easily taken in more business if YouTube wasn't working so hard for Google ads. There are a lot of paid (and free) services that suffer because of YouTubes ad-money business model.

Netflix could use the extra business. There are plenty of services failing to thrive while YouTube exists. Peertube would be wide open if YouTube went the way of most of Google's stable of apps. PeerTube is wide open even if YouTube doesn't go away anyway.

People genuinely hate ads. It's a high degree of enshitification. YouTube could divide into paid content and free content in a simple Freemium model.

Or, add third tier with ads, which any user can opt out of in the same way contributers can. I'd be happy to click subscribe on an ad free experience with less content available to me.

Or, add an option for a couple of free tier items per month, week, or day. Like Medium's business model.

It's not hard to stop sucking!

I have a student joke, but I'm not ready to submit it

I have a gardener joke, but I'll have to dig it up

I have a cleaner joke, but it's a bit dirty

Putting people on autopilot. The MS way!

Imagine life without concern and high expectations your dreams will be profitable. No wonder money makes money.

The more of us that take the hit the fewer people just going along.

I caught a trespasser the other day that said it wasn't him. Totally believed him too /s

"random" videos

He's a grifter. All he needs is a routine bet from a billion people and he potentially pays back on loans. He thought it might be possible with subscription, but he's considering a way to emulate previous cryptocurrency manipulation now.

Relying on people's apathy is a business model with eras of success. Most people have never changed a setting other than dark mode, and even then that's probably your average superuser.

It's funny because people describe PowerShell as powerful, but really they mean it's also a hammer to mash everything with. "Powerfull!"