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relatedarea ◴[] No.15724115[source]
I never watch youtube videos except for instruction videos and music videos. Why does google insist on going ads only rather than ALSO OFFERING pay per view?

I have the exact same gripe with facebook—their only viable method of supporting content is itself ruining the site. Both companies are just leaving money on the floor by committing entirely to a single (dying) revenue model.

This looks cool, but seems inherently untenable at actually getting the money to the content provider without the content provider working with this service.

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1. ucaetano ◴[] No.15725978[source]
Why? Because of property right laws, local taxes, etc. It is very, very complicated to build such a system for every market in the world.