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What's the difference? Most stuff I watch comes from a longer list of channels I'm subscribed to. I could go and figure out which Channel I want to donate how much to and then split 12โฌ between them and keep my donations updated if my viewing habits change and then deal with ads, or I could just not do any of that and support the video platform as well because honestly, I'm very happy with the distribution quality and selection YouTube gives me.
I have a subscription to nebula/curiosity stream as well but compared to YouTube, every other platform just suuuucks at content Delivery ๐คท
The difference is 45% of $12 and your original goal at the top of this thread was to support your content creators, not YouTube.
At the top I said "So if you care about supporting creators and the platform they run on, then premium is an easy choice. "
So that's perfectly in line with what I said, no?
Still not sure why you are so adamant about giving $5 a month to a monopoly generating 30bn per year. But you be you.
Because it provides me with value that imho justifies the cost in addition to supporting creators more than what they would usually get from me consuming their content.
Realistically, 50% of the videos I watch are random creators I don't subscribe to and I would not make the effort to donate to just for watching one or two videos. These people still worked for that content and deserve payment.
I could install an ad blocker and basically fuck them over for using YouTube as their platform, or I can pay money, have no ads and support them.
I think that's a more ethical thing to do then to pretend that they don't deserve compensation because realistically, they have no alternative platform that generates them enough money to continue what they are doing.
Nobody can make a living on peer tube or any of the other alternatives, except for maybe meta or TikTok but they are far worse.