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I'm not so enamored with feeding the bloated behemoth that is Google but I do like the fact the revenue share with creators gets them more per view than they would with ad rolls. It's a shame you still have to manually skip sponsorship sections on the mobile app.
I agree with you. In an ideal world, I would give 22 dollars to Patreon every month, they would scan my watch history and would distribute 20 dollars proportionally among the channels I watched without Google taking a cut.
Then Google could drop the price of premium instead of raising it and keep that whole fee.
That was the flattr model but it never really took off.
Wow, that's actually exactly what I was wishing for. I think I'm going to toss in $10 and see how it goes