Re:Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide
by gtirloni on Saturday March 23, 2019 @08:53PM
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It makes me sad your comment is being downvoted. If people aren't happy with ads, they aren't happy paying for anything, then what's the alternative? I don't see any. Those people need to get paid for their work somehow.
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Re:Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide
by zuppy on Sunday March 24, 2019 @01:34AM
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...or he got downvoted because it’s a solution that doesn’t work for all (I haven’t downvoted). I tried to subscribe to premium, but there’s no such option for me. It’s not available in my country.
Re:Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide
by msla on Saturday March 23, 2019 @09:45PM
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It's getting downvoted because paid options grow ads, like most cable channels did. (Not all of them. I think TCM is still ad-free.)
Plus, a comment sibling to this one said YouTube Red has ads, so there's that.
Re:Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide
by gtirloni on Saturday March 23, 2019 @09:56PM
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What does grow ads mean? FUD?
YouTube Premium is ad-free, it says so in their frontpage. Are you saying that's a blatant lie?
That doesn't address my point that content producers should get paid.
From YouTube Premium ad: "Ad-free YouTube, and our new music streaming service, YouTube Music. Services: No ads, Downloads, Background play."