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Option 7: Remove all pre-video ads from YouTube and return it to the way it was, dropping the idea of monetizing the world's largest creative platform. Edit: F

Option 7: Remove all pre-video ads from YouTube and return it to the way it was, dropping the idea of monetizing the world's largest creative platform. Edit: False dichotomy. Monetization does not necessitate ads. But you get what I meant.

bo1024 11y ago
False dichotomy. Option 8: consider ways to monetize that don't involve video ads.
- tssva 11y ago
  Like charging a monthly fee to watch videos and sharing a percentage of that fee with creators of the videos.
  - itsbits 11y ago
    that means become a NetFlix
    - serge2k 11y ago
      NetFlix with community created content. The problem is why would people pay for it without incentives. People will pay to not have shitty youtube ads forced more and more often.
fpgeek 11y ago
Since running YouTube isn't cheap and Google isn't a charity, that seems practically equivalent to shutting down YouTube altogether (after some reasonable notice period).
- corndoge 11y ago
  Google runs plenty of other things for free that benefit them by driving traffic to their ad platform in the long run.
  - Merovius 11y ago
    But nothing even remotely requiring as much traffic and storage.