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Re:Changes to the YouTube Partner Program by prepend on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @07:32AM (#16167350)
It helps a lot against all the ISIS videos that show ads where Google is getting a lot of heat in Europe.
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Re:Changes to the YouTube Partner Program by AstralStorm on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @09:30AM (#16168101)
Yes, because figuring out if you are actually sponsoring terrorism is hard. /s

No, the thing is advertisers do not want their brands associated with thing x. YouTube already has automated classifiers for demonetization. This is recognition that these classifiers do not work - from the side of advertisers.

Google could tell them "deal with it" and they'd probably oblige. The manual side was Google Preferred program.

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Re:Changes to the YouTube Partner Program by nemothekid on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @10:55AM (#16168881)
Google had been telling them “deal with it” for years, until the advertisers banded together and threatened to stop spending on YouTube.

That watershed moment is what caused YouTube to develop the whole demonetization algorithim in the first place

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Re:Changes to the YouTube Partner Program by wafflesraccoon on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @11:11AM (#16169028)
Source? I would like to read more about this.
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