As a highly experienced software developer, I'm available for not writing software at a reduced rate of $45/hr, and I can handle unlimited overtime.
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The US Postal Service should get in on this action.
I would prefer the USPS bring back basic banking at their branches.
If they're going to add anything, add Internet as a Service, since it's an essential utility for modern living.
I would prefer the USPS bring back basic banking at their branches.
Looks like they trialed doing that a bit.
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And in return, YouTube serves video and pays creators.
pays creators
Not enough. Otherwise creators would not need to include their own ads which Premium users can’t hide.
Premium users can jump ahead to "the next part of the video most users fast forward to", which are sponsored segments most of the time
Even if it was enough, they would not leave money on the table.
Which is still bullshit, Youtube Premium payers should not have to sit through that crap. Pirates with sponsor block have a better experience than paying suckers
It's not possible to pay enough to overcome human greed.
Not to money junkies it isn't, but to people with a healthy senses of empathy it would be.
not the first time capitalism asks you for money to solve problems capitalism created...
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.
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.
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.
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...
Again you're wrong. It's counted directly by the amount you watch and goes to the creators you watch.
Or, equivalently, pool all revenue, divide by watch time, get the same result.
You can verify this by constructing an excel table of 10 users (rows) and 3 channels (columns). Assign random % weights of "watch time" per user per channel. Assume a constant subscription fee of 1. Verify that a column_sum is the same as column_average*10, where 10 is the total platform revenue, as there are 10 users each paying 1.
Then it must changed because thats not how it was when they launched it.
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Finally a non-braindead comment.
Speak only for yourself. In the meantime, I use uBlock.
Inb4 they lock youtube behind DRMs with hardware authentication.
(Some apps don't run on third-party OS like Graphene OS anymore, that could be the future of technology)
If they make it too hard I'll stop watching. I have no intention of watching their ads (ads are psychological abuse), and they charge way-yyy too much for premium.
If they make it too hard I’ll stop watching.
Exactly. There is practically an infinite supply of entertainment with a wide variety these days. There are too many alternatives to care about any single source.
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This can't seriously be surprising for anybody, youtube with its on-demand unlimited video storage and streaming has to be one of the biggest money sinks on the internet.
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I scrape videos off of YouTube using Pinchflat which dumps them into a folder, predownloaded for me, which I then have connected to a Jellyfin server that splits each channel up as an individual series, ads and bumpers stripped entirely, and it automatically downloads videos as they release.
Paying sounded too involved. Make a google account, etc...
Who has the time?
Bro I think you just created a reason for me to build my next server. Thank you for this!
Honest? Wallet was on the other side of the room.
It was legit easier to run docker commands on my phone.
lol, np
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I'd pay YouTube if it were $5/month instead of $15.
In fact, a couple of my favorite YouTube creators are on nebula.tv and I pay them $30/year.
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Ever heard of Elsevier? You pay them for the privilege of posting your article, and then they charge other people for the privilege of accessing it.
And they don't pay the people actually proofreading/peer reviewing the stuff
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*and we block YouTube ads to not show ads
Youtube sends me data, I simply do not accept it. Simple as. No higher argument is needed
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