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Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium"
(lemmy.ml)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40372957
fyi:
- https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp lets you download videos (from youtube and also hundreds of other sites)
- for desktop, https://mpv.io/ is free and lets you watch youtube (or any other video) at even more and faster speeds than youtube premium does, among many other features
- for android, https://newpipe.net/ lets you play youtube in the background (and download videos, and block ads, ...)
- https://ublockorigin.com/ blocks ads everywhere (and yes it does still work on youtube, at least in firefox anyway)
Admittedly, the creators get extra revenue from you using premium, so that approach is very valid in my eyes.
Also, ublock now blocks a list that includes the tracker for youtube views, if I remember right, so peopld using ublock don't even count towards the creator's views now :-/ this may be outdated now
Donate to your favourite creators either way! And use patreon not the youtube BS because youtube takes a massive cut!!!
Yeah, I donate to my favorite creators. I'd much rather do that than give YouTube a penny.
This was a temporary problem that was discovered by a bunch of creators and eventually fixed by uBlock Origin.
I'm fine paying for YT Premium, because I watch YouTube all the time, but I don't even understand why people try to use YouTube's monetization. It's pennies compared to getting subscriptions from Patreon.
I turn off ads for all of my videos, because I'd rather just have the freedom to not worry about de-monetization. If I ever end up needing the money, I'll use Patreon to fund the channel.
I'm glad that's fixed.
And I think your approach is good. Look at Gamer's Nexus' channel. They got more funding from their supporters to fund their documentaries around the US, Germany and China in a few weeks than they would have got from youtube in months.
Viewer support is the way forward for creators imho.
Ib4 youtube bans external funding while using their platform.
I don’t see how YouTube could ban Patreon at this point. It’s too big to fail. Many of the top YouTubers have a Patreon account that earns them tens to hundreds of thousands per month. Cutting off people’s main source of revenue would just cause them to quit YouTube for another platform.