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by gitaarik 649 days ago
Why not better support them via Patreon or something similar? Then you can support them without giving YouTube a cut.
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I don't think that YouTube has anything against creators not using YouTube that can be funded via Patreon.

I'm pretty sure are just against it if people are using the platform and apps that they're are developing and maintaining without them having any possibility of getting any revenue in return. It's so popular that people are uploading 500 hours of video every minute, so I assume that this platform scaling doesn't come for free and people who're working for YouTube to make this possible wants some money too.

I think they have more than enough money ;-)

And then you might say "fairly earned"? I don't think so. But yeah everybody has their views on things.