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Comment by aglavine | Hacker News Reader

How much of your ad blockers go to creators.

You being annoyed the F out and wasting tens of minutes per day translates to about single cents per YEAR to content creator.

Most creators will have sponsors for their videos which, as opposed to random ads, I might actually want to buy something from.

What evidence do you have that most creators have sponsors?

All the Youtubers I am subscribed to have sponsors which is arguably not a representative sample size but still means that I can feel good about blocking YouTube's terrible ads on their videos.

Most don't but bigger channels would. You may only subscribe to bigger channels.

I would say that it's fair to call them bigger channels (as they are not niche 50k subscribers ones), but I think you'd still be surprised by their size, some more technical ones will have sponsorships by Chinese electronics makers (JLC PCB, taobao, banggood, etc...) while being at around 300k subscribers which is not that much in the modern YouTube.

Most is too strong, but a fair number of the ones I watch do. The creator is upfront about the sponsorship so it is clear. Generally this means a big announcement and then future videos show the product. Wd40 sponsors several that I watch, and following the sponsorship the channel was careful to point out they were using Wd40 for whatever. (in most cases the video would have been about them using something before like wd40 before the sponsorship, but the what may have been hard to tell)

How much of my premium subscription money would go to creators? That's an honest question. Google doesn't give even a vague hint as to what proportion of the fee is rev-shared. I suspect it is rather less than what I would like, especially since Youtube Premium includes their music service which I have zero interest in.

Due to this uncertainty I prefer to support creators I watch via Patreon.

65% would go to creators based on minutes watched.

How many Patreon subscriptions do you have? Are those the only videos you watch?

Citation? I've never seen Google give a hard number like that.

I don't subscribe to ads as a concept. I don't even want to see them in front of my eyes.

Those ads support the people who created the videos; if you don't subscribe to ads "as a concept", then that's even more a reason to buy youtube premium--the content creators are losing out by your adblockers, not youtube

There's something called Patreon. Or about a bazillion of look-alike alternatives.

> the content creators are losing out by your adblockers, not youtube

Why do I have to financially support content creators without question? Please explain this to me.

You don't have to. However if you support them they get enough money to make it worthwhile to do more. Some of the bigger ones make enough money that producing videos you like is their day job, if you don't pay them (ads count) then they will have to find a new job.

Only some. One of my favorite channels isn't sponsored at all, and is ad free.

Then perhaps you can, I don't know, avoid the sites that have ads?

No, I browse the web as usual, and don't see ads. The best of both worlds. Magic.

Do you subscribe for paying for content? Cause with Youtube Premium you don't get ads, and the creators you watch get paid.

The only thing people like to complain more then ads is for paywalls, but content creators need to be paid somehow to be able to make a living.

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