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xenocity
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22 Oct 2015, 1:16 pm

Hot on yesterday's announcement from Youtube of the $10 subscription ads free service launching soon, the downside of it has been revealed.

All YouTube creators of original content must accept the new terms of agreement to put their videos on YouTube Red and the new payment scheme.

The new payment scheme for original content will be based on time viewed by paid subscribers not views/hits.

If you decline, your original videos will be "hidden" from public view and only viewable to yourself.
http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/21/an-off ... pj4wv:ftTE

This shouldn't surprise anyone, Alphabet/Google have been bleeding billions operating YouTube as free service over the years.


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23 Oct 2015, 6:07 pm

You are assuming YouTube wasn't profitable. It is.

I'm not sure how well this will take off to be honest, it might not work out for them.



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23 Oct 2015, 6:54 pm

Have they not heard of adblock. I fail to see why someone would pay for no ads on youtube when adblock stops them? Let me guess the drm in html5 will make adblock fail i do not know will have to wait and see if it does.



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25 Oct 2015, 11:04 am

V111 wrote:
Have they not heard of adblock. I fail to see why someone would pay for no ads on youtube when adblock stops them? Let me guess the drm in html5 will make adblock fail i do not know will have to wait and see if it does.


Well it is possible to detect Adblock and simply refuse people with Adblock to watch the videos.


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26 Oct 2015, 12:40 pm

Consider uBlock Origin over Adblock for blocking ads.

I am sort of pissed, I donated to both Adblock and Adblock Plus, and one or both of them went to "acceptable ads".

Actually I would be open to "acceptable ads" if I got to choose what was acceptable or not.



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27 Oct 2015, 4:45 am

xenocity wrote:
Hot on yesterday's announcement from Youtube of the $10 subscription ads free service launching soon, the downside of it has been revealed.

All YouTube creators of original content must accept the new terms of agreement to put their videos on YouTube Red and the new payment scheme.

The new payment scheme for original content will be based on time viewed by paid subscribers not views/hits.

If you decline, your original videos will be "hidden" from public view and only viewable to yourself.
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This shouldn't surprise anyone, Alphabet/Google have been bleeding billions operating YouTube as free service over the years.


The title of your thread is slightly misleading. It seems that this is only relevant if you're a Youtube partner. If on the other hand you're a regular user that doesn't earn ad revenue from the content that you upload, then your content won't be removed.