RE: https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/115915908299552986
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@futurebird @david_chisnall You don't need Premium to avoid ads - just a decent adblocker. I haven't seen a single YT ad in like two decades.
what browsers do you use?
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$300 a month sounds like a lot — but if more people accounted for all of their streaming subscriptions I think it’s pretty normal.
If we could get 1% of streaming subscribers to switch to paying creators directly like this? It would have a transformational impact on the media landscape.
The thing that bugs me about the TV model is that the first step of the chain works how I want the whole thing to work. A studio creates a pilot (cheaply, missing effects and so on), which they then shop to networks. If networks think they can make money from it, they commission the whole thing. If they're a bit unsure they may pay for the pilot to be finished, show it, and use the viewer feedback to make the decision on whether to fund the whole series.
They then decide whether to renew the series for another season based on how well it does.
I would love to see the pilots made public and the series funded directly by potential viewers, to be made available for free distribution. When you release the first episodes, announce how much you need to make season 2 (including your profit), and start making it if you raise that much. Fans are incentuvised to share the show as widely as possible because it increases the chance people will pay for the next episodes.
Instead, we get two or more layers of indirection between fans and studios, and popular shows get cancelled because advertisers don't think its viewers will buy things.
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what browsers do you use?
@futurebird @david_chisnall Right now I use the Zen browser, but adblocking has worked on every browser & platform for more than a decade - Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Vivaldi etc.
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@futurebird @david_chisnall Right now I use the Zen browser, but adblocking has worked on every browser & platform for more than a decade - Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Vivaldi etc.
@jwcph @futurebird @david_chisnall Yeah, uBlock Origin in particular is highly effective.
I'm using LibreWolf (I'm getting a bit paranoid about privacy lately for some odd reason) and can confirm I just straight up don't get ads in Youtube and I'd almost doubt it even had them since I never have (due to having uBlock Origin since before Youtube went to such a questionable model) except I sometimes use Youtube on things like my Switch (which obviously won't block ads from their own app.)
Google really screws artists and their model puts themselves first, not the artists. They've profited off of many artists in ways that, legally, I think they actually can't do (because it monetizes stuff that never gave permission...)
