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Oh I must have missed that in those T&Cs I signed when I visited their publicly available website...

DanBC 13y ago
It's nothing to do with T&Cs, it's to do with not being a leeching asshole. Pay for the content you want. Don't pay for the content you don't want. Don't take without paying the content you do want.
- martindale 13y ago
  Why should we pay for content? Surely, there's some other model.
  - prawn 13y ago
    One is advertising!
- intslack 13y ago
  Why does anyone think doing content creation over youtube entitles them to money? It's an end in itself; to entertain others. Save the 'don't be an asshole' moral shaming: ads are not guaranteed income on any medium where people have control, it's as simple as that. If you're so uncomfortable with people being able to control what their computer or device does, make everyone use a black box to view your content. Or just paywall it.
- omni 13y ago
  Relying on your customers's benevolence is not a business model. If Youtube sees a lot of ad blocking, that should be an incentive for them to improve their ad delivery or come up with alternative solutions like micropayments.
  - citricsquid 13y ago
    The company that I work for suffers from a lot of people adblocking (due to the market we're in) so we offer an exceptionally high value subscription service, for a few dollars a month (between $2 and $5 depending on the payment period) any user can get an advertisement free experience across almost every website that we operate (over 100 websites) and there's a bunch more extra features that premium users gain access to... However I know of so many many users that visit our websites frequently (some that use our websites for hours every day) who use adblock and flat out refuse to pay the few dollars to view our websites without adverts legitimately. There really is no magic solution, the sort of people that are happy to adblock websites are the sort of people that just don't care. Why aren't adverts a good business model? People get the content with no direct financial cost (that's what they want) and the companies operating the websites get the revenue they need to exist. A lot of people are happy to view adverts if it pays for the content that they consume: I am! I don't block adverts. If a website has advertisements that I don't like I find another website to use, or just go without. Are shops relying on their customer's benevolence because people pay for the things that they want? There's a direct cost associated with delivering content to users on a website (which is incurred regardless of the advertisements viewed), there's a direct cost associated with delivering a loaf of bread to a customer of a shop, why is it completely unacceptable for someone to steal bread from a shop but the same is okay online? This isn't like media piracy, there is a direct cost associated with delivering content online.
- lotsofcows 13y ago
  They spam me. Their links pop up whenever I google something. People direct me to view their videos on youtube. You expect me to care about and support their business model? I don't give a shit. If someone posts a link to a cat video I'm going to click on it - if the company doesn't want me on their site don't let me on the bloody site. Don't be a patronising, sanctimonious "asshole".

DanBC 13y ago

It's nothing to do with T&Cs, it's to do with not being a leeching asshole. Pay for the content you want. Don't pay for the content you don't want. Don't take without paying the content you do want.

martindale 13y ago
Why should we pay for content? Surely, there's some other model.
- prawn 13y ago
  One is advertising!
intslack 13y ago
Why does anyone think doing content creation over youtube entitles them to money? It's an end in itself; to entertain others. Save the 'don't be an asshole' moral shaming: ads are not guaranteed income on any medium where people have control, it's as simple as that. If you're so uncomfortable with people being able to control what their computer or device does, make everyone use a black box to view your content. Or just paywall it.
omni 13y ago
Relying on your customers's benevolence is not a business model. If Youtube sees a lot of ad blocking, that should be an incentive for them to improve their ad delivery or come up with alternative solutions like micropayments.
- citricsquid 13y ago
  The company that I work for suffers from a lot of people adblocking (due to the market we're in) so we offer an exceptionally high value subscription service, for a few dollars a month (between $2 and $5 depending on the payment period) any user can get an advertisement free experience across almost every website that we operate (over 100 websites) and there's a bunch more extra features that premium users gain access to... However I know of so many many users that visit our websites frequently (some that use our websites for hours every day) who use adblock and flat out refuse to pay the few dollars to view our websites without adverts legitimately. There really is no magic solution, the sort of people that are happy to adblock websites are the sort of people that just don't care. Why aren't adverts a good business model? People get the content with no direct financial cost (that's what they want) and the companies operating the websites get the revenue they need to exist. A lot of people are happy to view adverts if it pays for the content that they consume: I am! I don't block adverts. If a website has advertisements that I don't like I find another website to use, or just go without. Are shops relying on their customer's benevolence because people pay for the things that they want? There's a direct cost associated with delivering content to users on a website (which is incurred regardless of the advertisements viewed), there's a direct cost associated with delivering a loaf of bread to a customer of a shop, why is it completely unacceptable for someone to steal bread from a shop but the same is okay online? This isn't like media piracy, there is a direct cost associated with delivering content online.
lotsofcows 13y ago
They spam me. Their links pop up whenever I google something. People direct me to view their videos on youtube. You expect me to care about and support their business model? I don't give a shit. If someone posts a link to a cat video I'm going to click on it - if the company doesn't want me on their site don't let me on the bloody site. Don't be a patronising, sanctimonious "asshole".