• Humanius@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It really boils down to a few reasons:

    • I don’t like ads, and I prefer not to see them
    • Running a platform like YouTube is not cheap, and I understand that Google needs money to keep things running.
    • The revenue of Premium is split between YouTube and the creators, much like ad revenue is. So it also supports the channels that I follow.
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        1 year ago

        That hasn’t stopped me from using other Google services like Gmail, Docs, or Drive either.

        If I ever decide I want to opt out of Google’s ecosystem I’ll just serve them a GDPR data deletion request.
        That’s what I did when I deleted my Twitter account as well.

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      1 year ago

      I didn’t know the channels get some of the revenue. Do you get to influence who the money goes to? Like a twitch prime sub?

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        It replaces the ad revenue the channel would otherwise have gotten from your view, at a higher rate than an ad impression.