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What screws are really being turned though? This content is still available completely free of charge to anyone with an internet connection. You just need to watch a couple of ads if you're not willing to pay.

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The problem is you can't just tape the shows and fast forward through the ads etc, or at least that's the direction things are going, it's a very very bad precedent.

How do you suggest creators are paid and infrastructure is maintained in your ideal world? And don't say people will donate because we all know that's BS.

In my ideal world? Taxes mostly I'd guess, the infra to share videos should be considered a public utility, much like libraries. Practically speaking I might be willing to pay google if there was more transparency about how much of my money actually goes to creators vs how much of it goes to google, and especially I would like to be able to chose to watch unmonetized videos only. Happily paying for Nebula and some patreons though.

"I might be willing to pay google if there was more transparency about how much of my money actually goes to creators vs how much of it goes to google"

That would be a major step forward, akin to old Bandcamp.

But that isn't YT's model.

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