wow just wow while i can't say i didn't see this one coming but it always amazes me where greed could lead someone
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I'm not paying for YouTube. It's algorithm sucks, it routinely sells your personal data, and virtually none of the money you spend goes to its creators--that YouTube pretends otherwise is repulsive. How did we get in the situation where we're being asked to pay more and more for worse and worse services? I'm not gonna be a part of it.
I'd be fine with ads and even paying if the creators weren't treated like trash and the number of ads weren't ridiculously obtrusive.
Unfortunately that's always the end result as never ending greed will always lead companies there
It's hard to imagine that situation wouldn't always lead us here. The advertiser-centric internet has got to go.
Yea, their algorithm has gotten really bad for me. The new to you tag is a little better but it's still not great.
For the record, I believe Linus mentioned that around half of the money for premium gets sent to the creators.
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They've been around. One of the only sensible uses of a blockchain as well, LBRY.
Unfortunately it was susceptible to a particular demographic and after it rebranded to Odyssey they're were users who seemed to ramp up on the dystopian content and niche creators focused on it less. It could have potential, but like with most of these things there needs to be a user base of content creators that draw in viewers. The few YouTubers that also uploaded to LBRY just weren't huge.
Alternatively, I found a good 100 or so movies on there and myself uploaded some niche content like the Futurama documentary (just an extra from a DVD set that I'd yet to see on the internet - it surely exists but it's there again)