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I'm regularly surprised that people are willing to block YouTube ads. I know that Google gets that advertising money too, but you're also blocking revenue that the channel owner would otherwise get. I suppose it might depend what you're watching, but most YouTubers aren't big business, they're just individuals.

YouTube Premium is one of the few subscriptions I am completely happy to pay.

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It doesn't have to go through Google. Lots of us support the people they follow through patreon et al, I don't need to make the gigacorp even richer than it is. They have enough.

Why do these creators use YouTube then? Why cant they host it on s3 and the have you directly compensate? Surely the creator is getting some value from YouTube and YT expects to be compensated for that?

> Surely the creator is getting some value from YouTube and YT expects to be compensated for that?

I'd imagine Google would start charging for videos that don't make enough money or heavily deprioritize them from discovery. That seems like a problem they could solve if they wanted to.

They don’t do this for the same reason GitHub isn’t getting rid of free repositories- it would create an opening for someone else

Many people are not aware that for smaller creators, Google forces ads on their videos (without consent) and takes all the revenue

Isnt that part of the deal of uploading to YouTube? YouTube promises distribution and in return they show ads to make up for lost {storage,bandwidth} etc.

I'm surprised that YouTube doesnt ask $100 per year and then also show ads. Like App Store (which requires "developer fee" for doing far less)

You mean they pay for the video storage, video streaming bandwidth, transcode CPU and serving the videos with ads on their content.

Without ad blocking YouTube is simply unwatchable / unbearable.

I guess they just chose the wrong business model if it doesn't work out for them.

I inherently disagree with the ad model of business. Intentionally worsening a product with ads to convince people to pay to remove them is just rewarding them for enshitification.

So on that front I'd prefer YouTube go out of business so that something like Nebula can take its place. Or the only videos left at\re the ones doing it as a hobby and not as a job.

Profit oriented YouTube videos are just as garbage as profit-oriented SEO spam listicles. I'm happy to deprive them of whatever revenue I can.

Youtube decides the thresholds, the payouts, the promotional algorithms.

when they stop placing ads arbitrarily in the middle of a sentence or scene Ill stop blocking them

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