• Humanius@lemmy.world
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    3 years ago

    It really boils down to a few reasons:

    • I don’t like ads, and I prefer not to see them
    • Running a platform like YouTube is not cheap, and I understand that Google needs money to keep things running.
    • The revenue of Premium is split between YouTube and the creators, much like ad revenue is. So it also supports the channels that I follow.
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      3 years ago

      I didn’t know the channels get some of the revenue. Do you get to influence who the money goes to? Like a twitch prime sub?

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        3 years ago

        It replaces the ad revenue the channel would otherwise have gotten from your view, at a higher rate than an ad impression.

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        3 years ago

        Basically a percentage of your premium is divvied out based on watch time. When I signed up it was half of my payment went to creators, I don’t know the current split though

      • Humanius@lemmy.world
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        3 years ago

        I’m not entirely certain, but as far as I’m aware it is divided based on watch-time.

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          3 years ago

          On your watch-time? I mean then it’s cool, cause you don’t even have to do anything. On the other hand I would probably have to log out to watch content I don’t want to support financially.

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        3 years ago

        That hasn’t stopped me from using other Google services like Gmail, Docs, or Drive either.

        If I ever decide I want to opt out of Google’s ecosystem I’ll just serve them a GDPR data deletion request.
        That’s what I did when I deleted my Twitter account as well.