"Just announced by YouTube, the website will be limiting the amount of Subscriptions a non-premium user can have, as well as limiting the amount of likes and comments a user without YouTube Premium can use per day. YouTube CEO Neal Mohan has described the decision as "a measure to prevent voting and comment manipulation" and said that "most YouTube users will not be affected by the change."
"YouTube content creators such as however, are furious. Creators like Markiplier are calling the move "disgusting and money-hungry, with no consideration for the users that make YouTube all of its content."
"No statement has been made yet on how limiting the amount of comments and likes free users can use will affect the algorithm for these creators"
Death to Google
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You can tell it's monumentally stupid because Elon did it already lmao
Its not really a question of smart v. stupid. Advertising rates are plummeting. The value of eyeballs is subsequently going down. So all YouTube can do is ratchet down the number of features for these loss-leader consumers. If people aren't contributing to your revenue stream, scaring them off doesn't hurt your business model.
Elon unwittingly got in ahead of the curve because he started tanking his business before the advertising slump. But he's implementing features that every social media company has been flirting with for years, now. These aren't even original ideas.
Damn, I actually believed that was real with all the enshittification going around
Yeah, YouTube is one of the few companies I give a little bit of a pass to. There's simply no way for them to keep storing the amount of content they do for mostly free. The fact that it was ever free and allowed ad blockers was just a miracle of low interest rates flooding tech with unlimited money.
YouTube gets 500 hours of video uploaded every minute. If we assume 10mbps CBR bitrate on those videos (gross oversimplification I know) then you're looking at 2.2TB every minute. I just built a 40TB NAS for $1500ish and they'd fill that in 20 minutes.
Obviously they're getting volume discounts and using better compression algorithms to save space, but the storage cost alone is insane.
Sorry, I realize I'm preaching to the choir by responding to you with this.
Be a lot better if YouTube was just honest though. Spare us this "reduce spam" bull shit and just be honest that video is expensive.
I realized I fell for bait now but I did math so I'm leaving it
That ABC link is dead, only thing I could find is this:
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-there-a-YouTube-subscription-limit?share=1
Anyone found a more recent article?
EDIT: Just realised this was satire. Welp anyway.
I don't see how this is entertaining satire. This is a move that is not remotely implausible, nor does the story make any valuable commentary about google/youtube. It just seems like purposefully incorrect news, and I think we have enough of that already.
elon practically did every fake thing in this to twitter
edit: you said implausible my bad
C'mon, companies are already doing enough dumb shit, we gotta make up new ones?
Yesterday I was sincerely thinking they should just remove the comment feature entirely, it's all the same comments under a video anyway like "Wow, nice result" or "I didn't know you could do that!"
Where are the jokes and additional info from knowledgeable commentors like we had in 2010? It all seems generated by the same LLM these days. Search engines are terrible since November last year, comments have become drivel, now they want to limit how much content you can consume (edit: referring to twitter limits)... I don't like this version of the internet
limiting the amount of likes and comments a user without YouTube Premium can use per day
This is unironically a good thing and they should have done it sooner. YouTube comments are cursed and the only thing that would make the site better is fewer of them.
"damn I should do that too"
