Re:Tell HN: YouTube fixed the dot after domain ad bypass
by sova on Saturday June 20, 2020 @10:58AM
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And without a profit motive, people will begin the true work of their lives and dreams! (Except that they still need to survive.) What is ethical about paying a plumber but not an artist?
Re:Tell HN: YouTube fixed the dot after domain ad bypass
by notahacker on Saturday June 20, 2020 @12:11PM
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That's lovely in theory, but the reality is that it just means the majority of the creators left will be the ones being paid directly because their content is primarily promotional, and some of the better creators will turn their hand to something else [or something more explicitly promotional or hard to find because it's behind a paywall] because everyone has to eat.
And what was left wouldn't be easier to find, because there wouldn't be a free platform to find them on.
Years ago before ads, the only people that published stuff were the ones who were legitimately interested. They were publishing out of love, not greed.
Today, all kinds of low quality content is published because they want ad-revenue. It makes it very hard to find the high quality content.
I say don't pay any of the creators. Then the only creators left will be the ones not doing it for money.