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"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 sche

"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 ago
Google 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 ago
  Isn'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 ago
    They 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 ago
      Imagine 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.

acdha 3y ago

Google 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 ago
Isn'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 ago
  They 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 ago
    Imagine 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.