Wouldn’t you get the same benefit by singing up to YouTube premium? Creators you watch will get a higher share of money from premium subscribers.
But unfortunately, they still suck all your data and sell it to third parties.
It's even worse if you pay, because if you sign in into your youtube account on the offical app, your entire phone is now linked to your a account even if you didn't link it before, with all the data in it. If you are not careful, your entire agenda and calendar immediatly exfiltrate.
Plus google gets your credit card, which means it will now link orders and data from other services using the same card number with its partners and get even more data.
After paying of course, you still can get your accounts locked out for obscure reasons with no appeal, and despite being a customer, have zero service support.
Google is not a respectful company.
And given what we know about the PRISM program, centralizing all this data in there is not good for democracy either.
They don't sell your data to third parties, they do advertising for third parties on their data.
I'm a YT premium user. I'm always shocked when I see how many ads are forced on non-premium users.
I guess YouTube could offer some way for creators to deliver two different videos to regular and premium subscribers so they could even take out sponsored segments?
Assuming this would be a non-trivial balance act because decently sized niche channels could probably make a big chunk from a big sponsor vs. free users seeing ads.