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How does one become "no longer commercially viable" for youtube?
by justforfunhere 7y ago
How does one become "no longer commercially viable" for youtube?
- nissarup 7y agoAdblockers.
- lm28469 7y agoDoes it matter though ? You don't need an account to watch video afaik.
- nissarup 7y agoNo. Not now. But that could change.
- alpaca128 7y agoI don't think this will change. Yes, they already require an account for the YT app. But if they block access altogether without an account then they also break all youtube links for unregistered users, motivating people to find alternatives for sharing accessible video links online. I doubt Google wants to take that risk.
- nissarup 7y agoI hope it won't change. But they can make watching without an account less desirable; less bandwidth, more ads, no access to newly uploaded videos, first 30s. free, etc.
- windexh8er 7y agoThis doesn't make sense. Anyone can watch YouTube without an account. So even if they terminated a consumer using adblocking it wouldn't change anything for Google. This is likely targeted at users publishing a lot of low quality video that get few views. If they enforce this my guess is we see backlash around free speech and the like. This seems like a perfect way for Google to curate "good" content in the eyes of themselves and potentially at the downside of people speaking out against Google, their products or videos promoting a competitive alternative. Google could deem things "not commercially viable" for almost any reason. It appears to have the advantage of being a perfect scapegoat.
- pilif 7y ago> This doesn't make sense. Anyone can watch YouTube without an account. So even if they terminated a consumer using adblocking it wouldn't change anything for Google. there are means to identify (and block) unique users without them needing to have an account. Heck, there's even means to identify the usage of an ad-blocker and/or youtube-dl and to refuse to provide the video for such cases.
- windexh8er 7y agoI see the point but that's a cat and mouse game. Google would invest far more resources to block those users than it was worth.
- thaumasiotes 7y agoI would peg this language as intended to make it clear that they can shut down e.g. Alex Jones for no other reason than that he's Alex Jones and some other people don't like him.
- enimodas 7y agoI've seen channels with 1000's of videos automatically uploaded by someone's dashcam, all with 0 views. I'm certain there are more cases where a user uploads tons of videos that never get watched.