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Where did it say or imply they'd be accessible without ads? YouTube has had ads since the early days (2008 specifically).
by hot_gril 3y ago
Where did it say or imply they'd be accessible without ads? YouTube has had ads since the early days (2008 specifically).
- mahogany 3y ago> 2008 specifically Perhaps the parent comment is talking about pre-Google and you are talking about post-Google? I don’t know if the parent’s claim is correct about a bait and switch, but I can confirm that pre-Google YouTube did not have (video) ads and felt very much like a place for small independent creators. And from my memory, widespread ads on every video did not come into existence for many years. Originally they were only on selected monetized videos.
- kmeisthax 3y agoIt used to be the case that you had to be a YouTube partner to monetize your videos. They changed it so that you now have to be a partner in order to demonetize your videos. So anyone who just uploaded a video in the ~12 years between YouTube having monetization and monetization being mandated got ads put on their work retroactively and without permission.
- hot_gril 3y agoThere's a difference between being monetized (i.e. creator gets money) and YT running ads. So are you saying that YT used to only run ads on monetized videos, and recently they started running ads on non-monetized videos too? Because I remember starting to see ads on clearly non-monetized videos quite a long time ago, like 2014. And it doesn't seem like a big deal; they didn't promise to host your video without ads forever, nor is that a reasonable expectation.
- kmeisthax 3y agoYour memory might be hazy. YouTube made an explicit ToS change on June 1st, 2021 in order to allow them to monetize non-partner videos. They call this the "right to monetize": https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/110289140/updates-to-youtube%E2%80%99s-terms-of-service-june-%E2%80%9821 https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/110289140/updates-...