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Why? Does Google need to be making a higher profit than it already does? Does YouTube deserve the extra money? For what reason should we pay?

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Why does it need to be justified? It’s their product and they are entitled to block ad blockers.

Either watch ads, buy the subscription, or stop using YouTube.

They're allowed to block ad blockers and people are allowed to circumvent those blocks.

Content creators get paid as well, but I don't think you care about that either.

You just want to have the cake and eat it I guess, which is fine as well.

I do care about that! But YouTube, the one profiting from those creators, should be the one paying creators more, from their already very high profits. Not me.

Need? No, not particularly. Deserve? Yes, they are providing a service.

They already make a profit from the service. I'm asking why I should provide them more than what they're already making. I believe their profit already gives them as much as they deserve for the service they render to society.

If you are watching YouTube then yes, it is a useful service that has some monetary value.

> If you are watching YouTube then yes, it is a useful service that has some monetary value.

Huh? They asked if it deserves more money. Not if it deserves money.

Well, yes it clearly deserves a little more money each time it renders a valuable service at nonzero operational cost. Duh.

Please look at the earlier comment again. "More" here is a synonym for higher profit. More money per view.

But the context of this discussion is whether you should be allowed to watch YouTube without any ads. So that's a baseline of zero money per view.

I think they're averaging over all viewers.

But also even for one individual that allowed ads, youtube premium is a huge increase to how much money youtube gets.

Are they actually making money off youtube? I almost doubt it. In any case I feel it might help to work against the shittification of the internet. Or maybe it doesn't, but at least it feels right.

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