Also decreasing the likelihood of content that you like watching gets made? The creator is being paid from that ad revenue too.

blibble 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

if my viewing actively cost the video creators money from me watching I'd probably feel guilty and stop

but this isn't the case, I'm completely cost neutral to them

but it does directly cost Google money... and I'm perfectly fine with that

	▲	Aerroon a day ago \| parent [-]
		I'm not making a moral judgement here. I'm talking about sending a signal that this type of content is valuable to make, leading to more content of that type being made.

olyjohn 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Or maybe they will move to a platform that respects them. Gotta start somewhere.

	▲	Aerroon 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		They're on YouTube because it's the platform that gives them the greatest chance of success. What other popular video platforms do you know that give you 55% of the ad revenue?