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Comment by WarmWash

4 hours ago

Rude that they don't give you free unencumbered access?

When they got the content for free, usually yes.

  • Youtube pays 60% of revenue to creators...

    • Youtube is pretty much fine. Outside of a few janky age restrictions, you can just go to youtube and watch videos.

      Remember right at the start: "There's no reason you can't abolish login walls while still serving ads." This is how youtube works.

      X is the one blocking or messing up views without accounts (and also being too likely to ban accounts that don't give a phone number).

      Though most people posting on youtube are doing it for free or negligible revenue (I'm not sure how it works out on a per-view basis), and a lot of the rest make almost all their money elsewhere.