Thanks for finding this. That answer's not definitively saying that if you don't want ads you lose access to any subscription revenue. There's further discussion here.
It sucks if true, because I never want to embed ads on anything I create, but I'm all for rewarding creators via direct payments, while limiting any donation/patron mechanism that rewards both begging and freeloading.
With the recent demonetization of many worthwhile YouTube videos that weren't regarded ad-friendly due to their subject matter or language, it's more important than ever that these creators can still be supported by subscription revenue. Otherwise we're allowing advertising to restrict us to anodyne content, like what happened with the broadcast/cable divide.
Thank you for that clear description. I just tried it out.
I'd avoided subscribing because I thought I'd be bothered by synchronous alerts on my phone, or even a distracting red bell icon, or have my email cluttered up (async, because I've turned of email notifications).
I see on the YouTube Settings page there is an option "Subscriptions: Notify me via push and email, push only, email only, or none", with push and email the default. I'll try "push only" to see whether I need to change to "none".
I subscribe to no channels, because I don't want distracting alerts. But there are channels I regularly browse for anything interesting. So I don't think it's fair to judge a channel's worth by its subscriber count.
Does anyone know whether video creators earn shares of YouTube Red subscription revenue, even if those creators can't or don't run ads? I've been wanting an answer to this ever since Red was launched, and it's an even more important question now that channels with fewer than 1000 subscribers can't run ads. Although I never want ads on my videos, I would like to receive income from Red subscribers.
...and you have the WORST entry from a writing standpoint.
Both the dialogue and the story construction did suck. Hardly any memorable lines or character insights. Played out more like a series of TV episodes, rather than a single dramatic arc.
I blame the recent ego-driven auteur trend of directors writing their own films rather than using dedicated writers.
I'm not a fan of the phrase "get through" when talking about reading or listening to books. It conveys the importance of throughput over digestion.
I usually read slowly, often a paragraph or a sentence at a time, to really think about what's being said and how's it's being said, and to revel in powerful moments. (I often joke to myself that it takes me longer to read a book than it took to write.) Often, when read, I toss a book around in my mind for some months, reading online discussion, and writing my own review, before starting another.
It looks like these high return rates are US stats. Other countries have less of a return culture, being more intimidated by store policies, and discouraged by high return postage rates, though it's perhaps slowly becoming more US-like everywhere.
I've long been surprised reading about US buyers who had no problem returning things until they got exactly what they wanted. In the US, retailers better accept that the consumer is king, perhaps due to better-developed competition, a greater focus on service, and better delivery networks.
I hadn't considered how a database breach would compromise 2FA by exposing OTP secrets. Today I'm going to implement encryption of our websites' OTP secrets by one of our master secret keys (that's never written to server secondary storage, and so is harder to hack).
Open software's main benefit is the ability to easily fix and customize it yourself, and to make it possible for other developers to fork custom versions. For many professional users, the gratis feature is just a bonus.
So just remove Freedom 0, and use a licence that requires users to pay if they make (production) use the software. Have the source and build exposed, and allow anyone to sell forks, but have the licence say that users of those forks still pay you, while fork developers can charge a premium. Money flows up the fork tree, just like MLM sales.
Enforcement? Most professional users will pay if making the software run in production requires an explicit act such as setting a "Licenced" flag, even if it's easily bypassed, and especially if registered users get better support.
Companies buy ad words using the trademarks and product names other companies all the time.
I can see how companies see this as allowing Google to extort them into buying keywords to their own trademarks so a competitor doesn't appear above them when someone searches for one of those trademarks. Competitors on the sidebar or below, fine, but placed above a link where the searcher clearly wants to go?
Android's "Do not disturb" mode seems to allow selective real-time notifications, but I'm not sure whether the rest are lost or can still be viewed on-demand.
Can you configure Android or iOS to queue some or all notifications in the background, so you can view them at your leisure like you can do with emails (once new email notifications are turned off, like they can in Thunderbird)?
Yes, a pod which could be used with both roads and tubes would save a huge amount of interchange time.
Although, it's often not absolute latency that's important, but scheduled latency: If a high-speed metro tube system were to be developed, intermediate stops would be very wasteful, so you'd want to have scheduled trips for each pair of destination stations. So you want all the pods making that exact trip to assemble at given times, but to avoid waiting, you'd be told to leave home at particular times. So the absolute latency can still be large, but at least you can be productive at home while waiting for a low-latency trip, instead of waiting at a pod station.
Even Samsung doesn't provide updates. Since I bought it in October last year, my A9 hasn't received any updates from Marshmallow 6.0.1. I'm not hopeful of any.
Alas, this doesn't get us to real a al carte. People want to select the channels they want to watch, pay a single bill and use a single remote to flip through those channels and record the programs for later viewing (or view on demand.).
To me, à la carte needs to be more fine-grained than just choosing channels. And more fine-grained than just choosing shows. I'd like all movies and individual TV episodes to be available for separate rental or purchase at a reasonable price. Google Play is getting there, but it looks like more stuff is being locked away in streaming bundles. It's bundling Mark 2.
TV shows struggle to find the balance between character-interaction/development and the situations that the characters find themselves in. Too much of one or the other and the audience shrugs and tunes in to something else. From what little I've heard about this new series it was going to be far too much on characters and not nearly enough on big-picture situations.
Yes, that is a worry. Too much character just turns SF into a soap in space. SF also needs a good dose of tech, science, and sociology. Not fantasy — which is another worry if the main adversary is going to be especially dumb and brutal orc-like Klingons.
But they want to be indexed by Google, just not by they company that tells employers their staff is looking.
A robots.txt file can state which HTTP User Agent strings are allowed. For example, Slashdot only allows access by certain search engines. If you're starting a new one, you have to misrepresent yourself, or you're buggered. The question is when such misrepresentation is legal and moral, and whether it is instead up to sites to more accurately detect who they want to serve, and serve errors to those they don't.
The solution is just to never, ever, stop looking. Even if you love your job, having a current resume on Linkedin will get you better raises.
Again it pays to be the selfish squeaky wheel. The basis of advertising.
So why doesn't RIAA demand that all of their products are removed from Youtube?
I've been told that this is because they'd then lose access to the ContentID system, which detects copyright infringement, and piracy would run amok. This is the true leverage of (YouTube's interpretation of) the DMCA — not because it allows a lot of undetected infringement, but that it gives YouTube leverage in negotiations because the record companies would lose protection if they walked away.
We shouldn't blame the designers. Their task wasn't to make the most useful service, it was to make the most profitable and news-organisation-friendly service.
Mobile being so bad for banner ads is encouraging a move to "native ads" (advertorial) and "earned media" (PR), which is an advance for your eyes but not for your mind.
Yeah, I think you're right. Snapchat and its clones are just the new shooting-the-shit pub banter and phone marathons. It's healthy — with the possible caveat of the mixed-in celebrity worship.
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Thanks for finding this. That answer's not definitively saying that if you don't want ads you lose access to any subscription revenue. There's further discussion here.
It sucks if true, because I never want to embed ads on anything I create, but I'm all for rewarding creators via direct payments, while limiting any donation/patron mechanism that rewards both begging and freeloading.
With the recent demonetization of many worthwhile YouTube videos that weren't regarded ad-friendly due to their subject matter or language, it's more important than ever that these creators can still be supported by subscription revenue. Otherwise we're allowing advertising to restrict us to anodyne content, like what happened with the broadcast/cable divide.
Thank you for that clear description. I just tried it out.
I'd avoided subscribing because I thought I'd be bothered by synchronous alerts on my phone, or even a distracting red bell icon, or have my email cluttered up (async, because I've turned of email notifications).
I see on the YouTube Settings page there is an option "Subscriptions: Notify me via push and email, push only, email only, or none", with push and email the default. I'll try "push only" to see whether I need to change to "none".
How do you know that something new is available? What alerts are on by default, and which have you switched off?
Right, but (a), can you turn off ads but keep on Red revenue, and (b), can channels who no longer qualify for ads still get Red revenue?
I subscribe to no channels, because I don't want distracting alerts. But there are channels I regularly browse for anything interesting. So I don't think it's fair to judge a channel's worth by its subscriber count.
Does anyone know whether video creators earn shares of YouTube Red subscription revenue, even if those creators can't or don't run ads? I've been wanting an answer to this ever since Red was launched, and it's an even more important question now that channels with fewer than 1000 subscribers can't run ads. Although I never want ads on my videos, I would like to receive income from Red subscribers.
...and you have the WORST entry from a writing standpoint.
Both the dialogue and the story construction did suck. Hardly any memorable lines or character insights. Played out more like a series of TV episodes, rather than a single dramatic arc.
I blame the recent ego-driven auteur trend of directors writing their own films rather than using dedicated writers.
I'm not a fan of the phrase "get through" when talking about reading or listening to books. It conveys the importance of throughput over digestion.
I usually read slowly, often a paragraph or a sentence at a time, to really think about what's being said and how's it's being said, and to revel in powerful moments. (I often joke to myself that it takes me longer to read a book than it took to write.) Often, when read, I toss a book around in my mind for some months, reading online discussion, and writing my own review, before starting another.
It looks like these high return rates are US stats. Other countries have less of a return culture, being more intimidated by store policies, and discouraged by high return postage rates, though it's perhaps slowly becoming more US-like everywhere.
I've long been surprised reading about US buyers who had no problem returning things until they got exactly what they wanted. In the US, retailers better accept that the consumer is king, perhaps due to better-developed competition, a greater focus on service, and better delivery networks.
I hadn't considered how a database breach would compromise 2FA by exposing OTP secrets. Today I'm going to implement encryption of our websites' OTP secrets by one of our master secret keys (that's never written to server secondary storage, and so is harder to hack).
Open software's main benefit is the ability to easily fix and customize it yourself, and to make it possible for other developers to fork custom versions. For many professional users, the gratis feature is just a bonus.
So just remove Freedom 0, and use a licence that requires users to pay if they make (production) use the software. Have the source and build exposed, and allow anyone to sell forks, but have the licence say that users of those forks still pay you, while fork developers can charge a premium. Money flows up the fork tree, just like MLM sales.
Enforcement? Most professional users will pay if making the software run in production requires an explicit act such as setting a "Licenced" flag, even if it's easily bypassed, and especially if registered users get better support.
Companies buy ad words using the trademarks and product names other companies all the time.
I can see how companies see this as allowing Google to extort them into buying keywords to their own trademarks so a competitor doesn't appear above them when someone searches for one of those trademarks. Competitors on the sidebar or below, fine, but placed above a link where the searcher clearly wants to go?
I want "block", "real-time", "queue in background", and "do-not-disturb=queue, normal=real-time".
OK, thanks.
Android's "Do not disturb" mode seems to allow selective real-time notifications, but I'm not sure whether the rest are lost or can still be viewed on-demand.
Can you configure Android or iOS to queue some or all notifications in the background, so you can view them at your leisure like you can do with emails (once new email notifications are turned off, like they can in Thunderbird)?
Yes, a pod which could be used with both roads and tubes would save a huge amount of interchange time.
Although, it's often not absolute latency that's important, but scheduled latency: If a high-speed metro tube system were to be developed, intermediate stops would be very wasteful, so you'd want to have scheduled trips for each pair of destination stations. So you want all the pods making that exact trip to assemble at given times, but to avoid waiting, you'd be told to leave home at particular times. So the absolute latency can still be large, but at least you can be productive at home while waiting for a low-latency trip, instead of waiting at a pod station.
Even Samsung doesn't provide updates. Since I bought it in October last year, my A9 hasn't received any updates from Marshmallow 6.0.1. I'm not hopeful of any.
Alas, this doesn't get us to real a al carte. People want to select the channels they want to watch, pay a single bill and use a single remote to flip through those channels and record the programs for later viewing (or view on demand.).
To me, à la carte needs to be more fine-grained than just choosing channels. And more fine-grained than just choosing shows. I'd like all movies and individual TV episodes to be available for separate rental or purchase at a reasonable price. Google Play is getting there, but it looks like more stuff is being locked away in streaming bundles. It's bundling Mark 2.
TV shows struggle to find the balance between character-interaction/development and the situations that the characters find themselves in. Too much of one or the other and the audience shrugs and tunes in to something else. From what little I've heard about this new series it was going to be far too much on characters and not nearly enough on big-picture situations.
Yes, that is a worry. Too much character just turns SF into a soap in space. SF also needs a good dose of tech, science, and sociology. Not fantasy — which is another worry if the main adversary is going to be especially dumb and brutal orc-like Klingons.
But they want to be indexed by Google, just not by they company that tells employers their staff is looking.
A robots.txt file can state which HTTP User Agent strings are allowed. For example, Slashdot only allows access by certain search engines. If you're starting a new one, you have to misrepresent yourself, or you're buggered. The question is when such misrepresentation is legal and moral, and whether it is instead up to sites to more accurately detect who they want to serve, and serve errors to those they don't.
The solution is just to never, ever, stop looking. Even if you love your job, having a current resume on Linkedin will get you better raises.
Again it pays to be the selfish squeaky wheel. The basis of advertising.
So why doesn't RIAA demand that all of their products are removed from Youtube?
I've been told that this is because they'd then lose access to the ContentID system, which detects copyright infringement, and piracy would run amok. This is the true leverage of (YouTube's interpretation of) the DMCA — not because it allows a lot of undetected infringement, but that it gives YouTube leverage in negotiations because the record companies would lose protection if they walked away.
Someone will write a browser extension that re-inserts the snippets.
We shouldn't blame the designers. Their task wasn't to make the most useful service, it was to make the most profitable and news-organisation-friendly service.
Mobile being so bad for banner ads is encouraging a move to "native ads" (advertorial) and "earned media" (PR), which is an advance for your eyes but not for your mind.
Yeah, I think you're right. Snapchat and its clones are just the new shooting-the-shit pub banter and phone marathons. It's healthy — with the possible caveat of the mixed-in celebrity worship.