Yeah, I donate to my favorite creators. I’d much rather do that than give YouTube a penny.
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87Six@lemmy.zip 3 days agoAdmittedly, the creators get extra revenue from you using premium, so that approach is very valid in my eyes.
Also, ublock now blocks a list that includes the tracker for youtube views, if I remember right, so peopld using ublock don’t even count towards the creator’s views now :-/ this may be outdated now
Donate to your favourite creators either way! And use patreon not the youtube BS because youtube takes a massive cut!!!
GandalftheBlack@feddit.org 3 days ago
MetaStatistical@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
This was a temporary problem that was discovered by a bunch of creators and eventually fixed by uBlock Origin.
I’m fine paying for YT Premium, because I watch YouTube all the time, but I don’t even understand why people try to use YouTube’s monetization. It’s pennies compared to getting subscriptions from Patreon.
I turn off ads for all of my videos, because I’d rather just have the freedom to not worry about de-monetization. If I ever end up needing the money, I’ll use Patreon to fund the channel.
87Six@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
I’m glad that’s fixed.
And I think your approach is good. Look at Gamer’s Nexus’ channel. They got more funding from their supporters to fund their documentaries around the US, Germany and China in a few weeks than they would have got from youtube in months.
Viewer support is the way forward for creators imho.
Ib4 youtube bans external funding while using their platform.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I don’t see how YouTube could ban Patreon at this point. It’s too big to fail. Many of the top YouTubers have a Patreon account that earns them tens to hundreds of thousands per month. Cutting off people’s main source of revenue would just cause them to quit YouTube for another platform.