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Just buy Premium, no ads and creators actually get paid unlike when you block ads.
by throwaway5959 3y ago
Just buy Premium, no ads and creators actually get paid unlike when you block ads.
- omginternets 3y agolol yeah, that’s what they said about cable tv. Fool me once, …
- drekipus 3y ago"fool me once" only applies when it's the same entity doing the fooling
- omginternets 3y agoOr the same process...
- Vvector 3y agocable TV had ads from day 1.
- omginternets 3y agoIt certainly did not.
- Vvector 3y agoCable TV started as a way to expand the reach of broadcast TV. Broadcast TV has commercials. Hence cable TV always had commercials.
- shadowgovt 3y agoIt depends on how you slice the question. The first cable-only station to do ads was USA in 1977. But since cable always carried local stations, cable always had channels where ads were run.
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- zulban 3y ago> creators actually get paid Until I see a report of exactly how much my monthly fee directly goes to each of my subscribed channels, I'm never going to believe that.
- hombre_fatal 3y agoHow much do they get from you right now with adblock?
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- barneygale 3y agoI pay them via Patreon. Google will never see any of my money.
- dymk 3y agoI wouldn't believe you if you told me you're subscribed to every Patreon of every content creator you consume the content of. And again: avoiding paying the platform operators no matter the cost.
- latexr 3y ago> I wouldn't believe you if you told me you're subscribed to every Patreon of every content creator you consume the content of. Everyone’s YouTube consumption is different. I’m not the person you directed the comment at but I realistically follow less than a handful of creators on YouTube. Subscribing to all their Patreons (not sure if all of them have it) would be quite doable.
- barneygale 3y agoI don't care whether you believe me or not.
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- Spivak 3y agoAt this point I think it's the principle of the thing. I mean I have premium but I still want them to get smacked down for this because Google made one of the endgame moves to drink verification can. Ads are supposed to incidental, you run ads and if too many people block them because they suck then congrats sucks for you. If no one sees them then sucks for you. Most people put up with TV ads when they're not even hard to skip. And for some reason IG ads are well liked. Forcing them harder I think has to make us confront what we're really doing here and what we're gaining by all this. Just pay for premium sounds nice when you don't think about it. If there's no universe where someone might actually prefer the ads if they were the same price then we're kinda admitting they have literally zero value to the viewer. And that paints a very different picture of advertising than "the grease of the economic wheel" ya know? And clearly all advertising isn't like this, like I paid to see the Lego movie, Barbie was fantastic. I watched a YT video of a woman showing her design process for a product she's selling and it was fascinating but it was also just an ad. But if YT are there to suck just so you'll pay for it to suck less than that's not mutually beneficial trade that's extortion.
- throwaway5959 3y agoThat’s a lot of words to say you want something for nothing. Embrace it, just say you don’t want to pay for content with attention or money.
- Spivak 3y agoAh yes I want it so much that despite being able to block YT ads for years and get all the content for free and still able to do that now I pay for premium. Clearly I just want free shit. I know it's crazy but what I actually want is an ad model where I don't feel the need to make it go away and might actually enjoy. An ad model where it doesn't have to interrupt me and force itself upon my eyes because it's actually content I would watch on my own. Like take for example Fly.io's blog. It's is some of the best advertising for the service and is definitely why I use them today. Raymond Hettenger's python YT series is a fantastic ad for his consultancy. Wendy's Twitter was/is hilarious. But its a weird dynamic because if the content is good you don't have to pay for it which seems silly because it's an ad all the same.
- ryandrake 3y agoEvery time there's an article about this fight, someone inevitably chimes in with their "Just Buy Premium" contribution. While true, it's not very useful or topical, and it's been re-posted so many damn times that it's pretty much zero-value. It's like going into a discussion about building your own custom PC from scratch and posting "Just buy it from Dell!" I mean, no shit! Everyone obviously knows paying is an option. These articles/discussions aren't about the obvious, short, straightforward path.
- wilsonnb3 3y agoThe “just buy premium” comment is usually the lone voice of reason in a sea of people jumping through hoops to justify why they like getting things for free without paying for them. There is value in reminding people that blocking ads when there is a paid ad free option is scummy behavior.
- throwaway5959 3y agoThank you. I usually get downvoted to oblivion when I say “people should pay for products they use”. I don’t get it.
- matheusmoreira 3y agoThey're totally free to configure their servers to return HTTP 402 Payment Required instead of a free web page. They keep sending us free stuff loaded with ads instead. Only have themselves to blame. Nobody's actually obligated to "pay" by looking at that junk.
- throwaway5959 3y agoPeople that don’t have a lot of money should be able to choose to watch ads for content.
- icy_deadposts 3y agoGoogle added our web pages to their index without paying us. and probably trained AI on our content without paying us. Just returning the favor.
- izzydata 3y agoI'd consider paying for Premium if they remove the free with ads version of Youtube. Ideally every single person on the planet blocked ads on Youtube on every imaginable platform so they were forced to restrict all access to content if you didn't pay for Premium.
- wintermutestwin 3y agoSigh. I would pay for and ad free experience in a heartbeat if, and only if, they also don’t steal my data, build a profile on my usage and feed it all into some current or future AI to optimize how to manipulate me. Of course that will never happen because these crooks are addicted to our data - and even more so if I am a paying customer.
- matheusmoreira 3y agoWhat an excellent idea. Pay money to Google every month in order to segment yourself into the "has lots of disposable income" marketing category thereby increasing the value of your attention, for the privilege of not having your mind raped by ads you never wanted to see in the first place, all while they continue to track your every move online.
- recursive 3y agoUnironically a good deal.
- matheusmoreira 3y agoGood deal is uBlock Origin, paying Google any amount of money is just foolish. Subscribe to the patreons of your favorite creators in order to support them, it's a perfectly ethical way for creators to make money.
- recursive 3y agoI do that too. I like the patreon model better, but I still like youtube.
- matheusmoreira 3y agoThank you for supporting creators.