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Brave expands Basic Attention Token platform to YouTube

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321 points Helloworldboy | 5 comments | 17 Nov 17 14:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.405s | source
1. jvehent ◴[17 Nov 17 22:13 UTC] No.15726434[source]▶
Genuinely asking: how is youtube supposed to pay for their own expenses when everyone uses brave and depletes their revenue stream? Won't that kill the platform itself?
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2. lifeisgood99 ◴[18 Nov 17 00:22 UTC] No.15727063[source]▶
Addressing the root cause of why people are leaving the platform would be a good step.
3. cisanti ◴[18 Nov 17 01:16 UTC] No.15727252[source]▶
That is the problem of Google, who cares how they pay their bills? Also, if they really wanted, they could block people using Ad/Ublock on their site, but they don't. Why do you care about a multibillion dollar corp? I sure don't.
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4. JumpCrisscross ◴[18 Nov 17 03:40 UTC] No.15727641[source]▶
> who cares how they pay their bills?

People having that attitude towards content creators is how we landed in this mess in the first place.

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5. wallacoloo ◴[18 Nov 17 19:32 UTC] No.15730275{3}[source]▶
I'd just like to point out that GP didn't directly present that attitude toward the content creators - just the host/provider, which is quite a different thing.