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Blender were asked to sign a monetization agreement. https://torrentfreak.com/youtubes-piracy-filter-blocks-mit-courses-blender-videos-and-more-180618/ https:/

Blender were asked to sign a monetization agreement. https://torrentfreak.com/youtubes-piracy-filter-blocks-mit-courses-blender-videos-and-more-180618/ https://torrentfreak.com/youtubes-piracy-filter-blocks-mit-c... "Update 2: Blender’s Ton Roosendaal notes that YouTube wants the organization to sign a monetization agreement."

ariwilson 8y ago
TFA has updates after this and this update turned out to be misinterpretation.
- kop316 8y ago
  I am not seeing this update you are referring to, it looks like it stops after Update 2.
  - ariwilson 8y ago
    Not your article, the original article: "Last night the Youtube Support team contacted Francesco Siddi by phone. As we understand it now it’s a mix of coincidences, bad UIs, wrong error messages, ignorant support desk staff and our non-standard decision to not monetize a popular Youtube channel."
    - kop316 8y ago
      I see it now (sorry the comment was confusing to me). To your original comment, Yes, in this case it was a "UX snafu". In the future, how many of those will actually be fixed? Will YouTube look at other instances for smaller ones where there won't be a social media backlash? Or will it be business as usual until YouTube gets enough bas PR again to manually fix it again and still nothing gets fixed? The reason that the comments in Hacker News are what they are is because of much deeper issues between YouTube and content creators. YouTube and Google have had many customer support issues in the past, it seems that YouTube has burned a lot of good will with a lot of content creators, and the only way to truly get to them is via "social media shaming".
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ec109685 8y ago
They still have the option of not enabling ads (you have to chose whether ads are enabled): https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/72857?hl=en https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/72857?hl=en I do wish people thought a bit more criticaly. Removing the ability to host videos ad free would be a gigantic change for YouTube, so people should be more skeptical.

ariwilson 8y ago

TFA has updates after this and this update turned out to be misinterpretation.

kop316 8y ago
I am not seeing this update you are referring to, it looks like it stops after Update 2.
- ariwilson 8y ago
  Not your article, the original article: "Last night the Youtube Support team contacted Francesco Siddi by phone. As we understand it now it’s a mix of coincidences, bad UIs, wrong error messages, ignorant support desk staff and our non-standard decision to not monetize a popular Youtube channel."
  - kop316 8y ago
    I see it now (sorry the comment was confusing to me). To your original comment, Yes, in this case it was a "UX snafu". In the future, how many of those will actually be fixed? Will YouTube look at other instances for smaller ones where there won't be a social media backlash? Or will it be business as usual until YouTube gets enough bas PR again to manually fix it again and still nothing gets fixed? The reason that the comments in Hacker News are what they are is because of much deeper issues between YouTube and content creators. YouTube and Google have had many customer support issues in the past, it seems that YouTube has burned a lot of good will with a lot of content creators, and the only way to truly get to them is via "social media shaming".

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ec109685 8y ago

They still have the option of not enabling ads (you have to chose whether ads are enabled): https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/72857?hl=en https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/72857?hl=en I do wish people thought a bit more criticaly. Removing the ability to host videos ad free would be a gigantic change for YouTube, so people should be more skeptical.