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Note that YouTube now has YouTube Red which does get rid of all ads.


... but it ensures your money goes to only the top tier of YouTube creators, and not the people who made the videos you enjoy. (Unless you only enjoy the top tier of creators, that is.) I hope you like PewDiePie, because if you're paying for Red, that's where the money's going.

I would never even consider subscribing to Red until YouTube promises that the fee you spend goes to the creators you actually watch.


Only? As far as I know, it gets divided in proportion to the number of minutes watched (by all users, not individual Red subscribers).


That's the problem. 99% of the free users are middle-schoolers watching PewDiePie on their cell phones during recess. There's 100 of those for every adult subscriber to Red.

If, and only if, Google divvied up the Red money by the creators Red subscribers actually view, then that scheme might appeal to me. As-is, it does not.




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