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Here: How We Built a $150 Million Streaming Platform with $100,000

Its a little braggy, but justified I guess.

There’s no way this profit all comes from YouTube

Personally, I doubt YouTube bring in any net profit. In fact, I think wendover just did a video about how expensive/hard it was getting Nebula up an running that that is at a fraction of the scale of YouTube.

Look, its hard defending Alphabet here, but things will enshittify if they don't have a clear and sustainable funding stream.

Even these Fediverse instances leave me with the question of how will they be paid for. Donations won't scale and any sort of monetization is...resisted.

The core being that ads suck: i don't think this one is solvable.

Everyone says they are okay with "reasonable" ads, but I have been alive long enough to know that just isn't true as one mans reasonable is another's objectionable.

Besides, adblockers are needed all over the internet so if I have in there anyways, why would take extra steps to diminish the youtube experience for myself?

A fine place for a first comment: they gotta pay for the videos somehow and hardly anyone will pay for premium.

The fact that no one who knows about ad-blockers will realistically turn it off for youtube kinda drives them into a corner right?