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What would be your preferred funding model?

exe34 2y ago
unobstrusive still image ads next to the video when not in full screen. a credit system where if I let them use one of my devices as part of their torrent nodes, they give me free hours of video each month. a pay as you go model where I can select how many hours of YouTube I want a month and I can watch that much video.
- omnicognate 2y ago
  Mine would be a frictionless micropayments mechanism that works across many/most sites, an idea that's as old as the web. Google are supposedly working on something like that but I'm not holding my breath.
- throwaway14356 2y ago
  replacement torrent website with similar functions, webseeds and paid hosting options.
bmitc 2y ago
I'd pay for something if they actually cared about the product. They don't, so I don't. Instead, they're just bullying me and others to pay them. YouTube doesn't make any of the content, and they don't care about the UX except to funnel you into more ads. I'm not going to pay for that experience.
- 1oooqooq 2y ago
  if there's one person carrying for the product for $1 and another selling junk for free that will have intrusive ads as soon as that pesky $1 guy is gone, you'd be using the free one, like everybody else
bee_rider 2y ago
None. We should have less entertainment. Watching TV is a waste of human potential.
mrguyorama 2y ago
I would pay $10-$20 a month for Youtube if they made significant improvements to how they work with creators, how they reward and encourage creators, and how they pay creators. However, that's not as profitable to Youtube as the current model is, which is to force obscene amounts of advertising that they are auctioning off to whichever scam porn app can afford to buy rights to your child's eyeballs and then tell Million subscriber youtubers who have been on the platform making high quality, reliable content since 2007 that they cannot swear, cannot show body parts that you just saw in an ad, and that it's perfectly fine their videos keep getting content claimed by fly by night groups that don't even own the content they are claiming but it was a system designed to make Viacom not sue Youtube ever again so it's never going to prioritize the creators, you can't show a tank exploding, unless you are specific channels that somehow DO have tacit agreements with Youtube to allow them to show outright murder and death somehow, and youtube will let some stranger take over your channel with one phished credential and let them overnight run it as a scam fake Elon channel, despite google proving quite often that they have had account takeover protections for like a decade. Talk to creators that have been on youtube since the early days and also have managed to get dedicated account reps. Youtube is horseshit to creators. They enforce dedication to "the algorithm" which is just shorthand for "if you do not put out a video every couple days that has very high clickthrough rate (ie you better use clickbate thumbnails) then we will straight up stop surfacing your videos to not just new audiences, but the people who are explicitly subscribed to your content and have been for over a decade". Google has a system that is pretty much designed to push you beyond your limits, to burn you out, and replace you with the next 18 year old who has no idea what they are getting themselves into. Oh, and the entire time your comment section will be a spammy, hate filled hellhole and they will do NOTHING about it at all. Google views content creators as easily replaceable laborers, as a resource to be consumed. Youtube doesn't want customers to pay for access to high quality pieces from talented artists, because it's literally more profitable to them if you as the consumer watch 10X as much slop that is full of ads. "Oh why don't they go somewhere else then" well since Youtube was bought, google has been basically subsidizing and dumping "Video hosting" into the market, so nobody else can run a viable video hosting platform for Jon Q public. Some creators DID try to go somewhere else, like Facebook Video, which was blatantly lying about viewer numbers and basically caused the premature death of College Humor. Youtube SUCKS. It's a pimp, not a partner. I won't give them a dime.

unobstrusive still image ads next to the video when not in full screen. a credit system where if I let them use one of my devices as part of their torrent nodes, they give me free hours of video each month. a pay as you go model where I can select how many hours of YouTube I want a month and I can watch that much video.

omnicognate 2y ago
Mine would be a frictionless micropayments mechanism that works across many/most sites, an idea that's as old as the web. Google are supposedly working on something like that but I'm not holding my breath.
throwaway14356 2y ago
replacement torrent website with similar functions, webseeds and paid hosting options.

bmitc 2y ago

I'd pay for something if they actually cared about the product. They don't, so I don't. Instead, they're just bullying me and others to pay them. YouTube doesn't make any of the content, and they don't care about the UX except to funnel you into more ads. I'm not going to pay for that experience.

1oooqooq 2y ago
if there's one person carrying for the product for $1 and another selling junk for free that will have intrusive ads as soon as that pesky $1 guy is gone, you'd be using the free one, like everybody else

bee_rider 2y ago

None. We should have less entertainment. Watching TV is a waste of human potential.

mrguyorama 2y ago

I would pay $10-$20 a month for Youtube if they made significant improvements to how they work with creators, how they reward and encourage creators, and how they pay creators. However, that's not as profitable to Youtube as the current model is, which is to force obscene amounts of advertising that they are auctioning off to whichever scam porn app can afford to buy rights to your child's eyeballs and then tell Million subscriber youtubers who have been on the platform making high quality, reliable content since 2007 that they cannot swear, cannot show body parts that you just saw in an ad, and that it's perfectly fine their videos keep getting content claimed by fly by night groups that don't even own the content they are claiming but it was a system designed to make Viacom not sue Youtube ever again so it's never going to prioritize the creators, you can't show a tank exploding, unless you are specific channels that somehow DO have tacit agreements with Youtube to allow them to show outright murder and death somehow, and youtube will let some stranger take over your channel with one phished credential and let them overnight run it as a scam fake Elon channel, despite google proving quite often that they have had account takeover protections for like a decade. Talk to creators that have been on youtube since the early days and also have managed to get dedicated account reps. Youtube is horseshit to creators. They enforce dedication to "the algorithm" which is just shorthand for "if you do not put out a video every couple days that has very high clickthrough rate (ie you better use clickbate thumbnails) then we will straight up stop surfacing your videos to not just new audiences, but the people who are explicitly subscribed to your content and have been for over a decade". Google has a system that is pretty much designed to push you beyond your limits, to burn you out, and replace you with the next 18 year old who has no idea what they are getting themselves into. Oh, and the entire time your comment section will be a spammy, hate filled hellhole and they will do NOTHING about it at all. Google views content creators as easily replaceable laborers, as a resource to be consumed. Youtube doesn't want customers to pay for access to high quality pieces from talented artists, because it's literally more profitable to them if you as the consumer watch 10X as much slop that is full of ads. "Oh why don't they go somewhere else then" well since Youtube was bought, google has been basically subsidizing and dumping "Video hosting" into the market, so nobody else can run a viable video hosting platform for Jon Q public. Some creators DID try to go somewhere else, like Facebook Video, which was blatantly lying about viewer numbers and basically caused the premature death of College Humor. Youtube SUCKS. It's a pimp, not a partner. I won't give them a dime.