Aside from Music, these are all negative features that are valuable only because YouTube is so obnoxious.

I'm in vehement agreement with parent to be honest. "We'll stop spitting in your soup if you pay us extra" isn't a nice value proposition.

"We'll stop spitting in your soup if you pay us extra" isn't a nice value proposition

so you want people to freely watch videos without paying anything or watching ads ???

how this works then, creator need to be paid, bandwidth need to be paid, infrastructure is not cheap

it is a nice value proposition, if its not somebody would already make a better alternative that not require those 2 (without paying and without ads)

the fact there is not then its not possible

To stay in the metaphor, wouldn't see some other business model that would allow them to provide the soup to people who order without having to threaten to spit into it ?

lol, there is no spit on it

it is the soup, people free to eat the soup or not

the fact that people always focusing on youtube flaw but never recommend alternative is simply saying that they are the best

That's the hallmark of a monopoly: people can complain about it as much as they want, it won't have any material difference.

"That's the hallmark of a monopoly"

but there is no monopoly ???? are you saying that you simply cant use another website/platform ????

this is ridiculous

if its android/ios then I can understand why its monopoly. but we have bazillion other video/streaming website

Youtube are simply the best, deal with it

It's not a particularly crazy idea that free users get a lesser experience. I'm perfectly happy to pay for youtube since it provides by far the best content and the price is reasonable.

The fact that people can get all of that for free with some minor limitations is fairly generous.

> It's not a particularly crazy idea that free users get a lesser experience.

Agreed, but it's the difference between a restaurant serving a mid-tier soup for cheaper versus giving customers a really good soup that the chef spit's in to encourage people to pay for the more expensive version of it.

> fairly generous.

Is Google "generous" ?

It feels bad as a consumer, but the alternative is usually worse.

The "stop spitting in your soup if you pay us extra" is really efficient market segmentation. If you don't do that you need to find actual value props that separate the market in just the right way to generate the financials that allow the product to keep going as is. 9 times out of 10 the result is that failing PMs totally fuck up the product and everyone loses.

It's the SSO kerfuffle in a different package - terrible, but the right choice surprisingly often.

There’s an excellent free ios app called “Unwatched” which lets you make playlists, set defaults per channel such playback speed, and lets you play videos in the background. I use it for “podcasts” which are video only.

And you don’t have to log in.

You also get >2x playback speed and higher bitrates on some videos.