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I may be misunderstanding something, since I'm not a youtube creator, but couldn't someone sufficiently comfortable with the other revenue streams they have at
by glenstein 9y ago
I may be misunderstanding something, since I'm not a youtube creator, but couldn't someone sufficiently comfortable with the other revenue streams they have at their disposal voluntarily choose to demonetize their own youtube videos?
- tialaramex 9y agoYes, Jim Sterling's videos are deliberately demonetized, his revenue comes via Patreon.
- rcthompson 9y agoFor now, yes. But what people are saying is that if large numbers of YouTube content creators turn off ads and switch to getting their monetary support through Brave, Patreon, or some other income stream that YouTube doesn't profit from, there's nothing stopping YouTube from changing their policy in the future to make video ads mandatory.
- ForHackernews 9y ago> there's nothing stopping YouTube from changing their policy in the future to make video ads mandatory. Ideally in that scenario, competition would push creators and viewers onto some other platform. Not sure how realistic that is, given the network effects involved with YouTube.