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Re:Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a ... by julienb_sea on Monday January 31, 2022 @05:14PM (#30155384)
Youtube has a Patreon competitor service literally built into the platform, you can "Join" a channel and it behaves exactly like Patreon. They were just very late to the party and most creators promote their Patreon more heavily.
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Re:Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a ... by pengaru on Monday January 31, 2022 @05:25PM (#30155548)
Is that something only available to paying subscribers?

I've never even had a YouTube login, but the few channels I access fully via the web interface only ever spam me with YouTube Premium offers for eliminating ads.

There's zero offering/marketing of direct-to-creator subscriptions, not that I've seen.

There's also zero chance of my buying YouTube Premium, but a non-zero chance of my giving money exclusively to the specific creators I value - even if YouTube took something along the lines of a haircut for making just those channels ad-free.

Hopefully the difference is clear.

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