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Why isn't YouTube charging for membership yet? The way I see it, if they simply charged all of their users $7.99/month to use the service they could eliminate a lot of their problems.

I mean we pay for Netflix, for HBO, for HULU... why not for YouTube? I would rather pay for the service then see/hear about all the creators backlash from their policies. Policies that seem to be derived from the fact that YouTube needs to make money, just a thought anyhow.

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They do. I pay $10/mo for YouTube Premium and it literally pays for itself because otherwise I’d be watching at least an hour of unskippable ads per month.

Sure, alright, I forgot about Premium but apparently it's not making it any easier for the content creators. What I was thinking was eliminate the free version of YouTube entirely. Then, setup a system that is more healthy for creators with the revenue they generate from memberships. Perhaps it wont work but if that's the case perhaps YouTube just wont work.

UBlock origin eliminates all ads all the time. Since installing I've not had to look at, or hear an advertisement.

Except the ones that the creators speak or insert themselves.

I'm paying for YouTube premium / YouTube Red to avoid the YouTube inserted ads. I'd much rather pay YouTube and the content producers than watch ads.

I wish this also meant that it avoided the content producer in-video ads. It would be nice if there was a way for content producers to have their own inserted ads (that could be avoided by paying them), so they would stop having in-video ads.

HBO, Hulu, and yes, even Netflix all have content with much, much higher production values than Youtube. Are you really going to pay $7.99/month for one-person-talking-into-a-camera style content? I certainly wouldn't.

If there's a creator I really like, I'd rather support them directly on Patreon, anyway. Why should I pay Youtube and give Google a hefty cut of that revenue?

For one person? You only watch one channel on YouTube? I watch hundreds of channels on YouTube and if it meant making the lives of content creators easier then yes I would pay/month for that. Of course, it would have to mean making the lives of content creators easier. Currently you can pay so you don't have advertisements but apparently that's not making the lives of content creators easier.

I don't watch any channels on YT, honestly. I see clips when people link them to me or I search for some specific thing.

I sometimes pay YouTube $11.99 a month for premium. It replaces the need for an alternative music streaming service, for one thing.

They do, if you want to skip ads.

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