Re:I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back
by Workaccount2 on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @10:57AM
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YouTube is hardly the only website on the Internet. And besides that, YouTube splits ad revenue 40/60 yt/creator anyway. So I suppose those creators are all in on the scheme too?
Re:I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back
by jraph on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @02:13PM
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> YouTube is hardly the only website on the Internet
Indeed, but it's the video hosting platform. Initiatives like PeerTube try to fix this, but most videos can be only found on YouTube.
> So I suppose those creators are all in on the scheme too?
Mostly yes. Creators today rely on:
- sponsors
- youtube ads
- donations
- merch
- other revenues, for instance if they have a business and their videos bring customers
At least you can often donate if you skip the ads and the sponsors, so there is a way to pay the metaphorical coffee.
Re:I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back
by skydhash on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @04:05PM
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But the service is free. So I will watch (without ads) until it becomes paid. And then, it depends on whether the value is still there.
Re:I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back
by Workaccount2 on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @09:21PM
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So is the coffee at my local "pay what you please" cafe.
(The content is on YouTube and nowhere else)
Until this changes and one can choose to go somewhere else, I wouldn't worry too much about the terrible cafe's income, because it is one of the richest entities in the world, it already shouldn't be that rich and powerful, and if it disappeared, it would finally let one go find coffee somewhere else.
The other possibility is to stop drinking coffee, of course. Though you can't really do this with everything.