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A comment on YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin. Parent comment

Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin by wdb on Sunday October 29, 2023 @05:41PM (#38063097)
YT Premium costs more than Netflix or Disney+. Quite pricey to get ad free Youtube videos and not as much content than normal streaming sites.
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Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin by userinanother on Sunday October 29, 2023 @10:14PM (#38064992)
Especially considering that YouTube gets the content for almost free
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Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin by Jensson on Sunday October 29, 2023 @10:52PM (#38065193)
> YouTube gets the content for almost free

Google pays out about 50% of ad revenue to content creators, that isn't "almost free" that is many billions of dollars.

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Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin by userinanother on Sunday October 29, 2023 @11:08PM (#38065258)
Yeah but what percentage of subscription costs go to paying creators?
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Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin by Jensson on Sunday October 29, 2023 @11:16PM (#38065301)
This site says 55% since youtube take 45%:

> In the end, YouTube takes a 45% cut of a creator’s Premium earnings, just as it does for ad-generated revenue.

https://vidiq.com/blog/post/youtube-premium-creator-revenue/

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Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin by kerkeslager on Monday October 30, 2023 @03:02AM (#38066479)
If a channel hasn't make any ad/premium revenue yet, Google still has the content for the cost of supporting the upload--i.e. they got it almost for free.

The fact is, Google takes on no risk and does none of the work of creating content, and takes a 45% cut for distribution, and is free to continue changing their terms to make things worse for content creators.

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Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin by codeTired on Sunday October 29, 2023 @11:59PM (#38065519)
You are still served ads in videos. It sucks paying for premium and your content creators use 3 minutes of 15 minute video to promote “nordVpn”.
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Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin by skyyler on Monday October 30, 2023 @03:34AM (#38066611)
That’s kind of your fault. None of the channels I subscribe to do sponsored content.
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Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin by chii on Monday October 30, 2023 @03:50AM (#38066699)
https://sponsor.ajay.app/ - sponsorblock is a must.
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