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Brave expands Basic Attention Token platform to YouTube

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321 points Helloworldboy | 2 comments | 17 Nov 17 14:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.411s | source
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relatedarea ◴[17 Nov 17 17:42 UTC] 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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j_s ◴[17 Nov 17 17:46 UTC] No.15724147[source]▶
Are you not aware of Youtube Red?
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1. w-ll ◴[17 Nov 17 23:06 UTC] No.15726732[source]▶
Speaking of Youtube Red, the way they handle if you have multiple devices is just so amazingly bad.

I pay for YouTube Red so that I can play music videos on my tv all day without ads. But if I go to a video on my desktop it will stop the playing of the video on the TV as only 1 session can be had with youtube at once IF YOU PAY FOR RED. If I dropped red, and just used ad blockers I will still be available to have multiple video sessions at once.

Drives me up a while and im seriously considering dropping red.

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2. j_s ◴[18 Nov 17 02:57 UTC] No.15727555[source]▶
This is good to know, an interesting contrast to YouTube TV advertising support for 6-ish account sharing out of the box.

Maybe it'd be worth paying for a separate account for the TV.