YouTube Red, a $9.99 Site-Wide Ad-Free Subscription with Play Music

Re:YouTube Red, a $9.99 Site-Wide Ad-Free Subscription with ... by km3k on Thursday October 22, 2015 @09:38AM (#10432108)

Yeah, they may be comfortable with it in consumer testing with people familiar with YouTube, but what about the people who never remember what anything is called and say things like Faceplace for Facebook, or Foxfire or "The Internet" for Firefox? If YouTube Red becomes popular (which I assume is something Google wants), you know these same people will be calling it things like TubeRed or RedTube.

Maybe Google is ok with watching the awkwardness that will ensue, since it probably won't cause them any monetary harm.

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Re:YouTube Red, a $9.99 Site-Wide Ad-Free Subscription with ... by toxican on Thursday October 22, 2015 @10:50AM (#10432547)

Then I have to wonder what RedTube thinks about this. Mistakes could result in a lot of extra traffic, but is it worth it? I believe they're owned by the same company that owns 5 or 6 other similar sites, so maybe they won't be too concerned.

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Re:YouTube Red, a $9.99 Site-Wide Ad-Free Subscription with ... by acqq on Thursday October 22, 2015 @11:22AM (#10432736)

The web was already there once, like whitehouse.com, see the Wikipedia entry:

"Part of the controversy about whitehouse.com was that users (especially minors in most cases) wishing to visit the website of the White House (www.whitehouse.gov) could easily go to the adult website instead."

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