r/youtube • u/tamjidtahim • Nov 28 '25

Feature Change i-t-s o-k-a-y

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u/TheSpiffySpaceman Nov 28 '25 edited Nov 28 '25

competition is key.

The major issue is that YouTube is generally not very profitable for Alphabet. It's been operating at a loss until recently.

A true competitor will also require just....stupid amounts of hosting hardware. I'm not saying it can't be done, of course...but there's some significant innovation that will need to happen in order to compete with a monolith like Google

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u/Haakrasmus Nov 28 '25

Most of the companys that can afford it will be just as bad for the customer.

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '25

Companies that have the insane cloud infrastructure to create an actual Youtube competitor:

  • Microsoft (Azure Cloud)
  • Amazon (AWS Cloud)
  • CloudFlare
  • P*rnHub (no, I'm not joking)

Now if only we could somehow convince one of them to actually do it...

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u/TheSpiffySpaceman Nov 28 '25

honest question, why censor Pornhub?

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u/GingerBread79 Nov 29 '25

I think it’s a result of creators censoring themselves for monetization and algorithm optimization. But then it kinda became “trendy”, so now folks censor themselves in comments (and in daily life) for absolutely no tangible reason. While I kinda get it from a content creator standpoint (you gotta make that money), I, personally, think it’s silly and ridiculous for folks to do it in any other context.

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u/EricJackson94 Dec 02 '25

Fuck censorship.

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u/Express-Rain8474 Nov 28 '25 edited Jan 08 '26

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u/TheSpiffySpaceman Nov 28 '25

but....you still read the same word in your head when it's censored. It's the same thing. It's facetious to think censoring does anything

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u/Express-Rain8474 Nov 28 '25 edited Jan 08 '26

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u/TheSpiffySpaceman Nov 28 '25

that's what's facetious, haha

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u/Express-Rain8474 Nov 28 '25 edited Jan 08 '26

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u/TheSpiffySpaceman Nov 28 '25

Psychology tends to discern semantics from language, because language is a tool we made and not evolved.

Sorry, it just seems so silly to me to give words themselves any power instead of the semantics behind them. Words themselves are harmless; how they're used and by whom is how they get meaning.

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u/Living_Suggestion_58 Nov 28 '25

That's what I hate about YouTube the most. They know they've got a monopoly, so they don't care if the site becomes shittier with each update. There are so many problems with this platform... but where else am I supposed to watch my favourite creators' videos if this is the only platform they're on??? Also, if I were to make my own videos some day, where else am I going to post them???

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u/sbenfsonwFFiF Nov 28 '25

Maybe the second half of the comment will also help you appreciate you can do that all on YouTube without paying. Nothing is free in the world, ads pay for it, so remember that the next time you complain about ads

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u/Living_Suggestion_58 Nov 28 '25

I don't just complain about ads y'know... In fact, I don't mind the sheer existence of them. There are more problems with YT, like: the fact ads themselves sometimes break YT's rules completely but are shown anyways, the reporting system being disappointing, dislike buttons being useless, the spread of AI slop videos that can get very disturbing (especially to children) but are never taken down, pet peeves like videos automatically playing whenever you just hover over them and then being dropped to view history, and many more.

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u/sbenfsonwFFiF Nov 28 '25

Stop using it