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[–] [email protected] 36 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I'd bet that channel "members" don't get ads for that channel regardless of premium status.

IMO, Google made premium, almost nobody bought it. So they went after adblockers, hoping that people would get premium to get rid of the ads. People most just Adblock harder.

While this is happening, one exec is peering over the fence at twitch. Where they only way to get away from ads without a pretty good Adblock, is to subscribe to the individual creator.

So they make "memberships" to channels a thing.

Almost nobody buys that either. So they go... What if, even if someone is premium, we give them ads, unless they're a channel member.

Genius.

Paying to block ads per creator/channel/whatever, is a special level of bullshit that twitch has always had.

The system is working as expected. The companies are trying to find the best way to extract the most value from you using their platform.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

People are buying memberships though?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Usually you see this for creatora like vtubers.
I like them but I will never consider memberships. At best I will sub to an actual service like floatplane or nebula

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

This is all conjecture right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Indeed. I have absolutely no way of knowing anything for certain.

I'm just screaming into the void from this hellscape we call Earth.