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Re:YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators ... by Supermancho on Thursday November 19, 2020 @11:35AM (#25151179)
> That just comes off as entitled. Youtube is providing free bandwidth, hosting, and advertising for his patreon.

Youtube has been promoting that you can do that since 2008 - https://techcrunch.com/2008/03/12/youtube-the-platform/ - so maybe "entitled" isn't the word. It's expected because the capability has been promoted.

However, in the same article you'll note this little tidbit:

In general if a video is uploaded to YouTube, in some cases we serve ads into that on YouTube.com. When people embed those we reserve rights to serve ads in the future.

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Re:YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators ... by RandallBrown on Thursday November 19, 2020 @09:26PM (#25156775)
> Of course, it is not exactly free. The videos will also be available on YouTube, where Google will make money from any associated ads. It is not clear how the ad revenue will be split, or even if it will be.

The article you posted doesn't mention that YouTube is promoting ad-free hosting that the creator doesn't have to pay for.

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Re:YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators ... by Supermancho on Thursday November 19, 2020 @09:34PM (#25156832)
> The article you posted doesn't mention that YouTube is promoting ad-free hosting that the creator doesn't have to pay for.

The article from 2008 doesn't mention that butterflys might be appearing across the video randomly either. How is what they didn't specifically say (or imply) relevant? I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.

I thought the messages from that far back was interesting, which hedged toward this eventual practice.

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Re:YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators ... by RandallBrown on Thursday November 19, 2020 @09:38PM (#25156852)
I thought you you were saying that YouTube has been marketing ad free video hosting since 2008 and the article was the evidence of that.

I must have misunderstood.

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Re:YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators ... by freyir on Friday November 20, 2020 @12:05AM (#25157461)
The article seems pretty upfront that ads may be played on videos uploaded to YouTube.

“Free” means he doesn’t need to pay for hosting, and he doesn’t.

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