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I know some of these words!

- an Emacs user

I'm not saying the YouTube tos are sacred, I am just saying that YouTube premium is good value for money and the right solution for a platform that is sustainable and profitable for creators (and Google). If they don't have a way of me saving a video that I want to archive myself, I will find another way of downloading it. If yt-dlp gets blocked I'll use OBS. But it's not practical for everyday use, and not on the potpourri of devices we use in the family.

I'll repeat, even if YouTube was perfect (which is impossible, no platform is) it would make sense to diversify. Streaming, merch, donations, whatever. You never know what can happen tomorrow. Since YouTube is created an operated by humans, they fuck up, so much more reason. Hard not to fuck up from time to time given their scale and complexity. Could they do a better job? Certainly, but as a i said, they are 95% there.

And I don't see a reason why a creator that I watch 20 minutes a month shouldn't get their fair share of the payment, why would I limit myself to the top 5? Or one that I watch 10 minutes once in my life, but solves a problem or a question that I had a that moment.

All for the price of half a trip to the movies, maybe one third. It's a no brainer to me.

PEBKAC

Yes, Youtube makes mistakes, has bugs and the moderation is not perfect. But it gets you 95% there, which would take years and literal millions to do yourself. The only premium feature I care about is the ads. For downloading things long term I use yt-dlp.

Of course creators want to diversify, even if YouTube was perfect they don't want to be dependent on one revenue stream.

About payments: Square charges 30c fixed fee per payment (+%). PayPal charges 49c. Stripe 30c. Ayden 37c. Klarna 30c. Please enlighten me how flat fees are not a thing.

Stupid long horses

Not even that, BMW allowed to get it as an option (never removed the possibility of buying it out right). However this is the internet, there's no room for nuance.

Same here. The only maintenance has been tires, windshield washer fluid and cabin air filter for the last 5 years. I also won't buy another one as long as Musk is there. Last year we were in the market for a second car and if it was about tech specs alone, a used base model 3 would be the best, but we bought a BMW instead. Fuck Musk, but the car is a pleasure to own.

But that's not what the slave owners with wooden teeth would have wanted!

Yeah, and not adapting accumulates the kind of tech debt that pays my bills when I have to come clean up. If everyone was doing their job I would be in a different like of work, a less profitable one for sure.

Google provides tooling, hosting, bandwidth, processing, security, metrics, payment processing, support, filtering, legal protection, captioning, apps for every platform imaginable, etc. Hardly a parasitic intermediary. Plus donating to 50+ creators would be more money in payment fees alone than what I pay for YouTube.

Machste nix.

Adblockers are a pain in the ass for many reasons. Small websites can't realistically fund themselves with other sources, big players like newspapers end up putting paywalls limit access to quality journalism or selling themselves to billionaires who can run them at a loss in exchange of influence on the reporting. You end up with billionaires controlling all media and no way for small shops to compete with them.

YouTube premium: YouTube ads are fucking annoying, adblocking on TVs is unreliable at best, impossible at worst, I want to support the people who create the content I enjoy and the price for a whole family, for a whole month... is one third of the price of going to the movies once.