I watch a lot of videos on world history. It happen very often that those YouTubers have their revenue cut off because the video is automatically flagged as "war", "weapons". It's ridiculous since those wars and weapons are those of the ancient world.
Worst than that, recently one big user had his account outright deleted for talking about ninjas and their weaponry in a video uploaded around 10 years ago. The algorithm went through his previous videos and flagged his entire account as undesirable.
See this petition where it took 35k+ users for his account to be restored. https://www.change.org/p/google-inc-reinstate-the-thegnthran...
In other words, if you video has ads, then the probability of appearing in searches and related content is higher, thus you, as used, are more exposed to ads.
So users that permit ads on their video get a virtual "fast lane" on the Comcast internet service. You know, I'm sick and tired of these internet service providers violating Net Neutrality principles.
Oh, wait. It's YouTube? Oh, that's fine then./s
I know you meant YouTube, but that describes Comcast cable TV service as well. YouTube is a competitor. Should Comcast be forced to deliver a competitor's content?
>with a company you pay a fixed monthly fee to access the internet
Some parts of the internet. You don't get the "whole" internet. You've had limited internet and fast/slow lanes for decades.
http://www.newsgroupreviews.com/comcast-newsgroups.html
https://www.xfinity.com/support/internet/list-of-blocked-por...
YouTube deciding your video is ineligible for earning ad revenue. So the creator gets nothing (or close to nothing, not sure). I'm not sure if it actually stops running ads on the videos since I've been using an ad blocker for ages.
Does it mean YouTube stops inserting ads in your videos? As a viewer, that sounds pretty great to me. It sounds like they also stop suggesting your video to random viewers, which is understandable if they're not making money off it.
Surely the real problem is that ads are toxic, the ad-supported content model is toxic, and YouTube's automatic recommendations are horrible (see the recent article on terrifying race-to-the-bottom videos for kids: https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-in...)
Edit to clarify: yes, of course I realize that content creators need the money. I'm just saying that this is a bad system that often rewards bad content and punishes important-but-uncomfortable content. Unfortunately it's almost the only system in town. I would love to see e.g. Patreon rivaling YouTube in revenue.
Edit edit: and ads aside, relying on YouTube (Facebook, etc) to tell us what to watch is terrible. We should instead do our own crowd-sourced curation, aka recommend good things to each other. And we need to defend ourselves against the likes of Facebook and Twitter insinuating their own filters between us and our friends.