Advocating for demonetization of a service is not the same as trying to maximize personal profits. Maybe not everything in the world is about money.
Advocating for demonetization of a service is not the same as trying to maximize personal profits. Maybe not everything in the world is about money.
No, it's about value.
Money is just a convenient abstraction of time and energy. Basically everyone, all the time, is focused on min-maxing their time and energy (optimally is another question, hah). These are both fundamentally scarce things and likewise have intrinsic value to everyone.
If you spend time reading an article or watching a YouTube video, it defacto has value to you, and the creator of it spent both time and energy making it. And just like that, there is a market.
And when the creator decided to make that free to access, it's improper for a company to throw up a wall in front of it.
I think you might be confused, because any creator can make their content free to access. If they are playing in someone else's house, yeah there might be rules they don't like, but it's also not their house.
Nothing stops creators from self-hosting and absorbing the full cost themselves.Yt doesn't even care if you link to your own hosted version of the video on their platform.
It used to be that when your house is the size of a city or even country that it isn't just your house anymore and you don't get to set the rules on your own. When a platform becomes big enough it should be treated more like a utility and a startup.
I meant what I said. Companies are allowed to be rude to everyone but it's still bad for them to be rude.
Rude that they don't give you free unencumbered access?
When they got the content for free, usually yes.
Youtube pays 60% of revenue to creators...
Youtube is pretty much fine. Outside of a few janky age restrictions, you can just go to youtube and watch videos.
Remember right at the start: "There's no reason you can't abolish login walls while still serving ads." This is how youtube works.
X is the one blocking or messing up views without accounts (and also being too likely to ban accounts that don't give a phone number).
Though most people posting on youtube are doing it for free or negligible revenue (I'm not sure how it works out on a per-view basis), and a lot of the rest make almost all their money elsewhere.