YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it::undefined

  • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    The main reason I never went for premium is that they basically do what the writers strike in Hollywood recently had to deal with: YT keeps pretty much all of the money from subscriptions and creators get almost nothing. Many saw huge drops in revenue after the program went live.

    To show just how exploitative their system is: subscribing to a channel (supporting them directly) still has you seeing ads. Even white supremacist "cracker is a slur" Twitch realized the importance of not playing advertisements on the channels you sub to.

    • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      FYI, subscribing on YT is equivalent to following on Twitch, free and just for notifications. Twitch subscriptions are more like YT channel members, emotes and all.

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        1 year ago

        I used subscribing as shorthand for channel membership because that shit's hard to work into a sentence.

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          1 year ago

          Fair enough, but subscribing is used two ways here, so it could be confusing to someone who doesn't know both.