Comments by "LoneTech" (@0LoneTech) on "Youtube goes to war with ad blockers - how companies die" video.

  1. Premium does pay the channels you watch, notably better than the ads ever did, but the lion's share goes to youtube. I have the impression the portion available to pay creators is no more than 15%. According to Wikipedia, there's Flattr support for YouTube. I should test that. PS: They've crippled Flattr to desktop Chrome only.
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  2. I also once paid for YouTube Premium and stopped because of their hostility. For starters, I requested the function to pay instead of getting ads years before they even introduced Red; and when they did, they decided to refuse me that service for another year or so just because of where I live (Sweden). Before offering it, they more than quadrupled the amount of ads, and they've kept going since. Well, I tried once they let me. Turns out, not only didn't I consistently get the ads removed, they told my mother she wasn't my family, based on a hidden requirement and hidden measurements. They never told me, the person paying. So one thing they'd have to do is publicly apologize for actively treating their paying customers worse than their ad-suffering viewers. Google spyware don't get to tell me who my family is. It's offensive and likely illegal that they spy in the first place, and using it to target and abuse customers is perverse. Another thing they'd have to do is actually fight fraud. Currently they're fighting the people trying to remove spam from the comment sections, not the spammers. And their ad system is at least 70% fraud too, without even the flagging option. Flagging comments doesn't get them removed, and it's not even possible to flag ads. One more thing. It would be nice if they actually took viewers into account at all before breaking things, e.g. dislike statistics and stereoscopic video. There are swathes of videos out there that were once correctly tagged for 3D viewing (and a mechanism to add the tags if they were missing) but youtube simply broke them.
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  3. The DRM business is about moving money from publishers to fraudsters by having both accuse the consumers paying for it all. Clearly entire industries can exist without actually working.
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  4. Some people will turn around and pay later, too. E.g. I used FastLynx as a kid, when I couldn't even get a credit card. I purchased it as an adult.
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  5. Another detail is how the shadow banning system works. Youtube don't delete comments when one account posts 60 copies of the same message in reply to every top level comment. They do delete my comments without warning if I edit to include a source reference.
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