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		adocomplete on Oct 18, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tell HN: YouTube disabling playback after 3 videos It sucks, but running a site like YouTube is expensive. I hope the trade-off is less ads overall since everyone will be forced to watch them (at least in theory), because using YouTube today without an ad-blocker is a terrible experience. I've been paying for Premium for years now, but every now and then I'll go to YouTube when not logged in and my god is it bad.

tsingy on Oct 19, 2023 | [–]

They are profitable, this is just an attempt to get more money.

badpun on Oct 20, 2023 | | [–]

Is youtube really profitable?

Condition1952 on Oct 19, 2023 | | [–]

if they need to save money, they can bargain the $20,000,000,000 a year deal through which they pay Apple money

uberman on Oct 19, 2023 | [–]

Is it 30 billion a year expensive?

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