Re:YouTube Red, a $9.99 Site-Wide Ad-Free Subscription with ...
by Bedon292 on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @03:39PM
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Right, I read it as your videos cannot be shown on the ad free site, since they wont be ad free. They should still show on the regular YouTube page.
Edit: Apparently I was wrong. There is another article on the front page stating they will be hidden on all forms of YouTube.
Re:YouTube Red, a $9.99 Site-Wide Ad-Free Subscription with ...
by homulilly on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @03:54PM
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So in practice this means that if you pay for the subscription you get access to less content.
Re:YouTube Red, a $9.99 Site-Wide Ad-Free Subscription with ...
by Bedon292 on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @04:13PM
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Looks like they are actually strong arming everyone into allowing the ad free version so this outcome does not happen...I understand their reasoning, but is also pretty hostile at the same time. I would definitely allow it, and can't think of a good reason not to, but not giving people a real choice could be a problem.
Re:YouTube Red, a $9.99 Site-Wide Ad-Free Subscription with ...
by austenallred on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @03:56PM
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No, it means that to avoid the situation you just subscribed YouTube forced everyone to agree to be on the subscription plan or they'd effectively be kicked off of YouTube
Re:YouTube Red, a $9.99 Site-Wide Ad-Free Subscription with ...
by Johnny555 on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @04:54PM
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If I were a content producer, I don't think I'd like that policy, but as a consumer, it makes the service more usable, since I know that anything I can see on the ad-supported Youtube site would be available on the paid site.
Much better than the model that cable TV uses where when I look at the channel guide I can see all of the channels, including the ones that I haven't subscribed to, and it's not until I try to watch a show on one of them that I discover that I can't see it.
Re:YouTube Red, a $9.99 Site-Wide Ad-Free Subscription with ...
by homulilly on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @04:03PM
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If that's what happened then good, but it sounds like people who don't agree aren't getting kicked off youtube, they're just not shown to subscribers.
Re:YouTube Red, a $9.99 Site-Wide Ad-Free Subscription with ...
by dangero on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @04:01PM
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Yeah that is a pretty odd outcome.
Re:YouTube Red, a $9.99 Site-Wide Ad-Free Subscription with ...
by stonemetal on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @08:37PM
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If they agreed to share ad revenue, continue to share ad revenue. Subscribers don't see ads, so no ad revenue to share. Sign up to share subscription revenue at your convenience.
How else could you implement this? If I buy a subscription for an ad-free site, it can't mean that it's ad-free except for videos posted by people who haven't signed the contract.