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I’d pay for YouTube premium if t wasn’t more expensive than HBO. It’s ridiculous. Especially considering YouTube has no production costs. It’s all user-generated content.
the users do get paid though, although i'm sure it's a fraction of what youtube makes.
It's such a low number most people would be disgusted.
We're talking a few bucks for a million views.
the big guys get sponsors to fund them, not ad revenue
That's a symptom of a broken system. It's literally users creating their own ads because the platform's ads aren't getting them paid.
On a related note, you can skip those ads with a plugin, or the right app on Android and Android TV.