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This is an annoying development with youtube; I would be willing to pay them $5 per month because they're providing the platform (not the content!), but certainly not 16 Swiss francs (which is close to $17) which they want to charge here. Or they could at least charge less for people like me who publish their own content for free on youtube.

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What are you on about? A cut of that 16 francs is going to creators just as a cut of the ads you see goes to the creators. Platform cost is not the only cost and creators need to be compensated and it comes out from the subscription fees.

The vast majority of contributors has no commercial intention (like me), or pushes content they were already payed for intentionally for free (such as public broadcasters), or make youtube videos to motivate people to sign up for a subscription with them to gain access to more services. If it was really about paying creators, youtube should do like e.g. Quora where the author decides whether his/her specific contribution is subject to monetization or free. I don't want to pay a flat rate for contributions that I don't even want to see.

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