I meant because they’re going to break ad blockers. YouTube isn’t going anywhere. Absolutely nothing will change if all the people that block ads are booted from the site except reduced costs. Sounds great!

:shrug: Quite frankly, I'm doubtful that Youtube is ultimately going to do anything that will threaten their monopoly regardless. If enough people are blocking ads that it's seriously hurting Youtube's revenue, Youtube is not going to risk those users going somewhere else -- because the point isn't just to make money, it's to cement a monopoly position over video hosting. That means being a dependable place where when a video is hosted, uploaders can be confident it'll be viewable.

I could very well be wrong about their internal calculations about that, it depends on whether Youtube sees an actual risk of users going elsewhere (and whether there are enough people blocking ads in the first place for them to care one way or another). It'll be interesting to see what Youtube ultimately does.

> except reduced costs.

This in particular is funny though. I would not hold my breath that Youtube premium is going to get cheaper. That's not going to be a thing :)

Youtube premium is not priced around the cost that it takes to keep Youtube running. It's priced around what the market will bear, just like every product is. The only thing that's ever going to make Youtube's pricing or payout model change is competition. That is the only thing that ever makes price go down.

If Twitch starts offering better hosting options than it currently does, or Nebula somehow manages to take off, or there's some completely random mass-migration to Peertube (unlikely), then maybe you'll see prices go down.