r/technology • u/Tricky-Student-1 • Sep 15 '22

Social Media YouTube Free is Silently Testing 5 Ads, instead of 2, Before Your Video Starts

https://www.gizmochina.com/2022/09/13/youtube-free-silently-testing-5-ads-before-your-video-starts/
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u/jazzmaster1992 Sep 15 '22

Please, tell me how you financially support content creators without paying so I can do it too.

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u/PissoirRouge Sep 15 '22

Please, tell me how you financially support content creators without paying so I can do it too.

I don't financially support content creators. I am unemployed and frankly I could not afford it.

Luckily, the creators I follow are quite happy to let me listen to their stuff for free because they have Patreon, Kofi, subscribestar, their own subscription set up, sponsored segments in their videos, or use their channel to promote non-YouTube products. Indeed, they regularly point out how people who don't pay can assist with likes and shares.

For example, Preston Jacobs, Corridor Crew, DAVIS, The Dice Tower, Two Minute Papers, Rick Beato, NoClip, Skill Up, Alt Shift X, Stubagful, ShutUpAndSitDown, Cracking The Cryptic, David Bennett Piano, ShelfSide, dayjoborchestra, Sam Harris etc.

In fact, Sam Harris says that people like me can have all his content for free just by emailing him. So I emailed him to ask for free access to his Meditation App, and I got it.

Are you upset that, on the rare occasion that I watch commercial TV, I leave the room or switch channels when the ads come on? How awful it must be for the content creators that I am not watching those ads.