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On Android there is an app called NewPipe to avoid mobile adds. I'm having to pinch pennies, though.
by mikeyjk 6y ago
On Android there is an app called NewPipe to avoid mobile adds. I'm having to pinch pennies, though.
- gundmc 6y agoThis thread is in the context of compensating creators, not just skipping ads. Using Newpipe does nothing for creators.
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- google234123 6y agoThat's definitely breaking the TOS
- gilrain 6y agoThey did say they're hard up. Sheriff of Nottingham over here, scrounging the last gold coins out of the cast.
- google234123 6y agoI don't think it's cheap to serve video content. That takes a lot of bandwidth, engineering, and compute resources.
- google234123 6y agoIt's not cheap to serve video content. That takes a lot of bandwidth, engineering, and compute resources.
- tpxl 6y agoAnd they give it to you for free!
- Applejinx 6y agoIt scales, though. It makes sense that a thing like Google YouTube exists: if you can scale enough, it becomes worthwhile at least to yourself to provide it. Your main benefit is control and exclusivity: you can expect very large results from very small controlling actions. Most likely doesn't make you enough money to redistribute it to lots of content creators, though it serves your purposes to have 'em thinking that is what they're there for. I'm happy enough to serve consumer-grade video content at no cost to me through YouTube, on their terms. It's limiting, but I can put a lot of video out there without paying a host to serve the bandwidth. And YouTube gets to continue to pretend they are the only game in town.