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Everyone would just change the description of their Patreon page to be "Support me so I can bake delicious cupcakes" or something else unrelated to the videos.
by nitwit005 9y ago
Everyone would just change the description of their Patreon page to be "Support me so I can bake delicious cupcakes" or something else unrelated to the videos.
- ChuckMcM 9y agoAt the end of the day though Google/Youtube has the ultimate hammer, "sorry you can't use our service any more." which, in a similar way, has already killed a bunch of AdSense supported web sites (Dr. Dobbs being perhaps the most memorable to me). This is the world we live in today, company A has some good or service that company B uses in a structural way (ie without it company B wouldn't exist). Company A decides they want/need more revenue they squeeze Company B for it, generally it eventually kills Company B. This scenario has played out again and again, and whether it was Company B using Company A's free API, or Company A's copyrighted material, or Company A's community web site, the squeeze happens and company B usually dies.
- nitwit005 9y agoThey'd need a mechanism to squeeze them though. That doesn't seem to exist in this case, at least not in a reliable way. The Dr Dobbs shutdown doesn't seem to be related to Google blocking them, just that their ad income was too low to keep it going.