> YouTube channels earn revenue from viewers with YouTube Premium. Throughout this month (August 2018), I earned approximately 55p per 1000 regular views and 94p per 1000 Premium views, so it appears that if 75% of your viewers went Premium, that would actually be beneficial.
> Per user, creators usually get a LOT more from premium than ads. If I divide my monthly views by my monthly unique viewers, I get about 1.9 cents per viewer.
> The way premium works is, first youtube takes a cut--I believe it's 45%. The remaining amount is divided among all the creators you watch based on how much you watch them. I believe that's based on view time.
> So if the YT premium price is $13.99, the creators get 55% or $7.69. You would have to watch 405 different creators for each one to get 1.9 cents.
I used to, but I don't consume enough YouTube videos anymore to make it worthwhile. Give me a top-up plan that I can use to pay for individual videos and I will definitely do it.
But what's with the weirdly aggressive second part of your message?
There are not enough people with your willingness to make this mechanism work by itself.
So the choice is either to have the content exist, but rely on ads, or not have the content exist. And it's not your choice - it's the content creator's choice.
You can pay for Youtube Premium right now and the ads go away.
For a long time, my criticism was that Youtube Premium is needlessly bundled with Youtube Music, which is redundant for me as a Spotify user and which I refused to pay for accordingly.
Now, in at least a few countries, there's "Youtube Premium Lite", which is basically regular Youtube but without ads. If you live in one of these, in my view that's close to the ideal scenario: Everybody gets to choose between watching ads and paying.
From the same rules: "Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did."
If you forget your shop's door open after hours, and someone starts shouting "HEY GUYS! THIS DOOR IS OPEN! LOOK!", I have a hard time putting 100% of the blame on you.
Why is a cracked bridge dangerous? Because anyone traveling over it or under it is at risk of being hurt if the bridge collapses. Warning people that it is cracking does not increase the likelihood of a collapse.
Why is a software vulnerability dangerous? Because anyone who knows about it and has nefarious intent can now use it as a weapon against those who are using the vulnerable software, and the world is full of malicious actors actively seeking new avenues to carry out attacks.
And there are quite a few people who would exploit the knowledge of an unlocked door if given the chance.
There’s a very clear difference in the implications between these scenarios.
A vulnerable piece of software is always dangerous.
There are large numbers of state funded exploit groups and otherwise blackhat organizations that find and store these vulnerabilities waiting for the right opportunity, say economic warfare.
Much like building safe bridges from the start we need the same ideology in software. The 'we can always patch it later' is eventually going to screw us over hard.
I agree with the conclusion that we need safer software from the start.
But we also have to deal with the reality of the situation in front of us.
I will maintain that the differences between the implications of revealing a crack in a bridge vs. prematurely revealing a vulnerability to literally the entire world are stark. I find it pretty problematic to continue comparing them and a rather poor analogy.
> There are large numbers of state funded exploit groups and otherwise blackhat organizations that find and store these vulnerabilities
This underscores my point. What you’ve been describing is a scenario in which those organizations are handed new ammunition for free (assuming they don’t already have the vuln in their catalog).
They didn't "forget" to lock the door that one time. They just never lock it. The guy yelling it out loud is pissing off all the people who already knew you didn't. He is not the one to be angry at.
Hot take: your ""debloater"" screwed up your system.
I've had problems with Windows, but none of the ones you've described.
> For the average user this experience sucks. But for me, I'm okay.
I guess this describes my Windows experience. I _know_ some people have problems. I don't, because I guess either I got used to it or I know how to avoid it.
Windows kind of has this property where it rots. Both in time between reboots and in time in general. Running Windows 1+ week without a reboot and it just... gets a little more buggy and a little more slow each day. And then after a few years, it's time for a reinstall.
