Looks like its over for me and youtube. Being told I cant watch because of an ad blocker.

Where is everyone moving to and using instead of youtube? I will just move to the same place.

  • Fosheze@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I'd be in favor of direct payments too if any of the money actually made it to the content creators I watch. As it it most of their videos wind up demonitized so I'm not going to pay youtube just so youtube can pay copyright trolls. If they started pushing back against the people/companies filing false copyright claims then I would be willing to pay. But we all know that won't happen.

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      1 year ago

      Not to mention cases where they demonetize a video/channel and still run ads on it 🙄

      Apparently the content isn't advertiser-friendly enough to pay the creators, but it IS advertiser friendly enough to advertise on.

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        1 year ago

        That's something else that pissed me off. I do understand demonitizing from ad income (although in my opinion advertizers should just cope) for "vulgar" content. But it makes no sense for those same videos to lose youtube premium income. If youtube premium users are watching the video then the poster should be making at least that income even if the video cand be advertized on.