[pravus]

I currently pay $5/month to the Kevin Richardson channel as a member and have been a member since inception for over 4 years now. When I went to the members section of YouTube to view my members-only videos I received the blocking message and was denied access to the video player. This is in addition to other wildlife charities for which I send monthly donations directly.

I use uBlock Origin on YouTube specifically to work around many UI issues related to their recommendations and player. I will not turn it off. One example is that they will not honor my closed-caption settings on all videos so I have a filter rule to remove the call to the captions URL to eliminate them. That's one of countless issues.

They are now denying me access to a service for which I do actually pay for. I consider that to be illegal.

My proposal is simple:

    * Give me an option to pay for what I use.  I do not want music, 99.9% of live streams, news, or tons of the other content they try to force on me for money-making purposes.
    * Make the price reasonable.  The videos I watch are primarily educational lectures.  This really shouldn't cost much more than the price of disk storage and network egress (both of which are cheap at scale).
    * Give me a recommendations and preference system that actually work.  I spend more time curating my list of videos than watching anything meaningful to my interests.  At one point I was watching 2 luthiery channels and "guitar necks" came up as a category.  What the ever living fuck?  Related yes, but not quite the topic I really want to focus on.  I would remind people that this is a multi-billion dollar company with PhDs that has changed the face of AI and hyper-scale computing as we know it.
    * In general, operate like a long-running business... offer good value to your paying customers.  Now that the customers are not advertisers, Google will need to rethink their sales strategies.  They have not yet convinced me.