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Those ads aren’t from YouTube but also consider whether creators like doing that or are doing so because people aren’t willing to pay them directly or watch ads
by acdha 3y ago
Those ads aren’t from YouTube but also consider whether creators like doing that or are doing so because people aren’t willing to pay them directly or watch ads. YouTube premium pays better than ads according to most sources so the easiest way to not have sponsorship ads is to pay the artists rather than complaining when they get their rent money from someone who does.
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agoThat's not even close to true, most subscription services still advertise on top of it.
- acdha 3y agoThat is true here, but also it’s a free market. If you don’t like it, stop supporting those businesses and help someone whose practices match your values. The amount of sophistry people will expend to say that they have no choice but to keep watching YouTube is absurd.
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agoSome people think dancing is immoral, yet I shall continue to dance. I don't really care what you think about my behavior, I'm going to continue consuming youtube ad-free and I'll do so with no other justification than because I can and I can because they give it away for free.
- I_Am_Nous 3y ago"Sure creators, we'll give you more ad revenue just as soon as people start paying us!" My individual contributions, Premium or not, are tiny in the grand scheme of things. Similar to me buying an EV and feeling better about myself "solving climate change", giving Google money so they will feed that poor, starving content creator an extra morsel of revenue misses the mark entirely. Google is asking creators to rely on them to get their bills paid. Google doesn't pay them enough so they have to get revenue some other way. This is also similar to Walmart not paying workers enough but spinning it as a good thing because then they can qualify for food stamps.
- acdha 3y agoGoogle isn’t holding a gun to anyone’s head. Creators are there because they get paid better than elsewhere. Your choice is paying or not paying the people who make what you like. If you continue to use YouTube but don’t watch ads or pay for premium, you’re choosing the latter option even if you don’t like to acknowledge what you’re doing.
- I_Am_Nous 3y agoIsn't Google still getting relevant ad data from me regardless? If I watch a video indicating I am interested in a topic, Google now has a hint to give me ads for that topic all across the internet. Even if I don't watch ads on Youtube, I'm giving them data they can monetize against my ad profile. That's not worth nothing. In fact, that data is the whole reason Google is currently in business. So I'm expected to sell them my data and accept them using that data against me before I am allowed to watch a video, and while I watch a video, and after I watch a video, and anytime I go anywhere on the internet...Google might want Youtube to pay for itself, but Google is already being paid via my data. And has been for years.
- acdha 3y agoThey monetize that by selling ads so no, you aren’t paying anyway, you’re just freeloading. If you didn’t have an ad blocker (or used Premium) the creators of your videos would be getting paid for you watching.
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agoImagine going to Oktoberfest and being told you're freeloading by listening to the bands playing. As mentioned before, this idea that we owe our time and money to someone giving away something for free is a scam on the same level as diamonds being a girls best friend.