cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40372957
fyi:
- https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp lets you download videos (from youtube and also hundreds of other sites)
- for desktop, https://mpv.io/ is free and lets you watch youtube (or any other video) at even more and faster speeds than youtube premium does, among many other features
- for android, https://newpipe.net/ lets you play youtube in the background (and download videos, and block ads, …)
- https://ublockorigin.com/ blocks ads everywhere (and yes it does still work on youtube, at least in firefox anyway)
Ok let’s take a look at the numbers. They might be unreasonable I dont know.
I couldn’t find YouTube’s profit or net income. So I’m going off the 2024 net income for alphabet which was 100b
YouTube is considered to be about 30% of alphabets valuation.
Let’s assume YouTube’s net income 2024 was 30b
Now they have 2.54 billion users. Divide that up and its about $12 profit per user and that is in their best year due to the election driving massive 30% increases in traffic and ad revenue.
I think $12 profit per user per year is reasonable margins.