• @[email protected]
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    5723 hours ago

    It’s one or the other. If you pay YouTube for Premium and don’t get any ads, advertisers don’t pay for your ad impression.

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      22 hours ago

      wish there was an option for “pay the platform the few cents the ads make” instead of me paying the platform a wild and ever increasing amount of money

      Tbh I feel like they should take a ~30% cut from the creator tips feature and add that to a “ad balance” which would remove ads and subtract the few cents they would’ve got from the ad. That way YouTube gets paid, the consumer doesn’t get ads, and the creator gets encouraged to make good content.

      • @[email protected]
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        610 hours ago

        You keep imagining some way how YT could get cheaper for you.

        But in fact, ads are highly profitable, and if you buy a premium there’s a very transparent revenue share model. 70% of your money goes directly to the creators.

        All your wishes are already fulfilled, you’re just poor and are trying to justify not paying with imagined arguments.

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          22 hours ago

          The thing that bothers me is the revenue doesnt go to creators that I watch. Its all pooled and divided out by view count across the entire platform. Which is bs. I dont want my money going to the top channels that i have zero interest in. A better system is dividing it out to the channels I view.

          Thus why adblocking and patreon is highly popular…

        • @ComicalMayhem
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          820 hours ago

          My biggest gripe about Patreon is that I can’t just do a one time donation, it’s a subscription to donate money to people. Cool and all, but I’m not rich enough to just give some of my income to people, I’d rather do small donations whenever I can.

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          520 hours ago

          most patreons are at least $5 so if you sub to more than 2, you might as well be paying for YouTube premium