More YouTube Premium plans are coming

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1 pointBrajeshwar5 comments

Youtube feels more and more like extortion every day that passes.

How so?

YouTube is one of my favorite subscriptions because it encourages "the little guy". As I understand it, once you hit 1K subscribers you start making revenue from the videos you create. I'm all the time using videos there to learn things, and I'm able to share that subscription with my family in what I feel are reasonable terms.

Yesterday I used it to remind me how to install a roof vent. Money well spent.

See, that's where you messsed up. You let it know you had a problem you wanted to solve with money. Now you get to play whackamole with bad DIY channels until you give that account a root canal.

Actually, if I'm looking at DIY videos on youtube, it means I have a problem I am NOT willing to solve with money. :-) I never really have the problem you are describing though. Youtube wants to feed me to videos I'll watch, and while it only does a passable job of it, it doesn't tend to give me roofing videos after I've watched one on roofing for too long if I don't click on any more.

My solution was to have several different accounts, to improve recs via topic restriction per account. It helps, some.

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