But if YouTube doesn’t earn enough how will they be able to maintain the site? Agree that they can earn a little less but for some reason it doesn’t work that way (I’m not aware of a service of such scale which keep profit at minimum) 🤷
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Para_lyzed@lemmy.world 10 months agoTalking on the YouTube front, a trivially small donation will support them far more than watching ads ever could. Even something as small as $1/year is far more than they would ever make from you in a year. As far as donations to developers go, it depends entirely on what you feel comfortable with. Most people who work on open source projects are unpaid volunteers, so it isn’t expected that you donate, but if you choose to do so it can be quite helpful to sustaining the project. If many people in the userbase were to make small donations, that would go a long way.
menisadi@programming.dev 10 months ago
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I was going to write exactly that. I have a channel with tens of thousands of subs, and a $1 donation from a single user generates more income than multiple ads to that same user. Patreon, or a straight-up donation (of any amount), is so much better than suffering through ads.
Ads kill content, it disrespects users, it steals attention away from what you’ve created, builds frustration and breaks the flow of your content, and they serve only to benefit Google & partners.