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That's what they want. Get all the users they aren't able to monetize off the platform to lower their costs.
I mean, I like a good Google hate train as much as the next guy, but that's kind of a legitimate thing to want.
Follow the damn train, CJ!
Ooooooh my dawg
It's YouTube's fault for setting the wrong expectations when they benefited from wild growth and success by being free all these years. I dare they go 100% paywalled. I know they won't. Otherwise they can't double dip on both premium and advertiser money. Even if they manage to go 100% paywall, it's inevitable that they will start introducing adverts to paying customers as well.
Then I'mma leech HARDER
That's a double edged sword though, lose viewers and you lose appeal to advertisers. Lose users and they're going to go somewhere else. That somewhere else will eventually grow and be competition. The bigger it gets, the faster it will grow.
They used the "You" as in the people, during their growth years to build their platform. Now they are going against the people since they no longer need us.