Why is it shady, should Youtube host your video for free? Youtube is an insane free service, there's nothing that comes close to the video and stream quality.
To be honest I'm surprised so many video's have been hosted without ads while the creators cash in outside of Google.
They should give creators an option to pay for hosting or to do revenue share with different ad providers. What a Google does is anti competitive and should be illegal.
Yes, because I am making content for them for free. It is unpaid labor on my part in exchange for free hosting. Now it is unpaid labor that makes them money.
Could someone explain the downvotes? I do not believe this is such a radical opinion. Prior to this change you were still producing content for the YouTube ecosystem for free until you hit 4k view hours. Then you could begin to make a meager amount of money. It is not such a great deal for content creators and now it is even worse.
To be honest I'm surprised so many video's have been hosted without ads while the creators cash in outside of Google.