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Re:YouTube Will Remove Videos of Creators Who Don’t Sign Its... by dingaling on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @06:30PM (#10429248)
However Facebook requires potential viewers to log-in to view videos, which completely nullifies their service as a spontaneous click-link-and-watch option. Also prevents embedding.

Remember that well under half of the Internet's population have a Facebook account.

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Re:YouTube Will Remove Videos of Creators Who Don’t Sign Its... by bsder on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @06:43PM (#10429331)
> which completely nullifies their service as a spontaneous click-link-and-watch option

Agreed. I, personally, can't stand Facebook. However, most of the people I know who create videos now only upload to Facebook so I had to make a Facebook account. The eyeballs follow the content. So, the question is, "Why are the content creators ignoring YouTube?"

And, actually, with pre-roll ads, YouTube did a good job of wiping out spontaneous already. It's not unusual for me to to click link, ad starts, close tab. I doubt it's coincidence that .gifv started taking off after pre-roll YouTube ads became ubiquitous (before you'd just link the YouTube video).

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