![]() ![]() ![]() The freelancers, who have no protections, no unions, no insurance, no recourse - get a percentage of the ad revenue the corporation receives from the other corporations who are buying ad space on the platform. It is a place where unlicensed amateur broadcasters voluntarily sell themselves to the platform in exchange for the platform being able to affix commercials to their being. YouTube, as we understand it now, is essentially a massive freelance grift. There's a lot of automatic acceptance of ads, advertising, and commercials as being not just an inevitability, but kind of a rite of passage in this context, a fair price people are expected to pay to support both the machine and the "content creators" living on it. Call it "entitlement" if you like but that's honestly entirely on the big megacorps here. I mean, sure, some will accept the decision reluctantly, others will shrug, but many will be pissed and understandably so. ![]() It's honestly similar to why people are pissed at Netflix for removing password sharing, when Netflix promoted and encouraged this behaviour themselves, before going "oh no." and then yanking it from users. So, whose fault is it that users who grew accustomed to using a free service don't want to have the rug pulled from under them? If it was that unsustainable (and I honestly doubt that it is, Google is very profitable and they can easily afford to keep running Youtube I'm sure), maybe they should have thought of their business model beforehand. Youtube Premium didn't even exist until several years into the service's existence! It basically hooked users into the service (with user data being the "product" as others have explained). Click to shrink.I get where you are coming from, but bear in mind that Youtube DID start out completely free. ![]()
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