NewPipe – ad-free, open-source Android YouTube client

Re:NewPipe – ad-free, open-source Android YouTube client by kbenson on Friday July 17, 2020 @01:51PM (#23873367)

> It is also to the benefit if creators if they diversify their revenue streams.

Watching content on YouTube while blocking ads does not encourage creators to go to other platforms. You've already consumed their product, thus lessening demand, so there's less reason to put it on another platform. It's not likely you'll go watch it on Vimeo after they upload it there when you've already seen it on YouTube.

Creators may be better off with a donation and merchandise revenue stream. Describing your actions as "benefitting" them by helping them see this by depriving them of revenue from you for their content is a slightly odd take though.

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Re:NewPipe – ad-free, open-source Android YouTube client by II2II on Friday July 17, 2020 @02:20PM (#23873697)

> Describing your actions as "benefitting" them by helping them see this by depriving them of revenue from you for their content is a slightly odd take though.

The claim was that creators would benefit from diversifying, not that my actions were benefiting them. I was quite clear that my motivations were related to Google.

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Re:NewPipe – ad-free, open-source Android YouTube client by kbenson on Friday July 17, 2020 @02:40PM (#23873915)

Fair enough, I was focused on the first part of that sentence to the exclusion of the rest of it, which is my mistake.

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