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Comment by sgjohnson | Hacker News Reader

I have an ethical dilemma about YouTube. I hate ads, I hate Google, and I want to support the creators.

For those reasons adblock is a must, and paying for YouTube Premium is not an option (I’m not going to voluntarily give a single penny of my money to Google)

Sure, I’ve got CuriosityStream and Nebula subs, but not all content creators use those platforms.

It is what it is.

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Nebula seems to split profit 50/50[0] while YouTube splits it 55/45 to the channel[1], and Youtube Premium views are regarded as being sometimes 10-20x the payout of an ad-supported view[2].

0: https://nebula.app/faq#:~:text=How%20do%20the%20creators%20g...

1: https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/youtube-partner-progra....

2: https://twitter.com/LinusTech/status/1486935690315112455?s=2... and https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/totalbiscuit-youtube-red-p...

re: [2] I did not know that. This thread has convinced me to seriously look at paying for YouTube.

The creators that are decently big (100k+) make enough money whether or not you ad-block. Don't worry about it.

They make enough money precisely because not everyone ad blocks. This seems like a fallacious argument.

A lot of big creators take sponsorship deals and have in-video ads. I know most of the ones I watch do, and I actually don't even mind them. They're personalized to the content creator's content, and are usually as entertaining as the video's contents because of it.

GP is talking about Patreon and sponsorships. A lot of videos get demonitized too, so some creators stand to see no money from ads in some videos.

To support the creators whose videos I'm watching on YT, I use a whitelist add-on that disable the adblocker on those channels. Though the add-on still allows me to skip the ad, which I'm doing when it's an ad I've already seen.

You can pay for their Patreon as well if you want

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