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I've stopped caring what the capacity is. Youtube doesn't require a fraction of what we have already in place.
However, they've put so many ads that an adblock is required.
But, if you have adblock you need to click the video you need to watch, let it not load, refresh the screen, wait way longer than should be needed, and then watch the video while getting a nagging popup that says "Experiencing interuptions?"
Followed by watching the video rendering NOT rendering at various points, and you need to pause and let it buffer.
All because google thinks they are entitled to push malicious ads onto my device, and punishing me for blocking them.
The speed we have is more than enough for the internet we have. The bottleneck is the companies enshittifying their own service.
Faster speeds mean nothing when you artificially throttle them.
Look, I'm no fan of ads, but... It's a free service that costs an ungodly amount of money to run. They've gotta make money somehow.
Of course the whole running it at a loss for a decade thing means they had to go the enshittification route. Could've had more ads and a subscription option long ago but they wanted to lull us into a false sense of security first :/
I honestly don't know what people here on Lemmy want them to do. If you don't want ads then you can pay the subscription.
You can't expect the largest video platform to be free and without ads, they have to pay to host all of the videos somehow.
If anyone has a serious alternative to ads or subscription while still being able to pay for the hosting then maybe start your own service and use that as the USP?