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by immibis 555 days ago
I subscribe to YouTube Premium (from back when it was called YouTube Red). I pay a fixed amount each month, and that gets given to people who made videos I watch. Why can't we have more things like this?
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Because you are an active consumer of YouTube to the point where you think it’s worth it to pay the monthly fee; as do I.

However, I seldom read any news articles maybe 1-2 here and there only. In that case I wouldn’t want to pay for a susscriotion. I likely also don’t wanna pay like five bucks to read an article.

ostensibly because after years of experiments, ads get more revenue in most circumstances.