> They're double dipping and earning twice the money.
The advertising cut is not much at all and it's really hard to sustain anything on it.
> It's like your Cable TV or favorite newspaper charging you for subscription and then filling up the content with ads because they can earn FROM BOTH.
It's more like the flip of that, content having ads but you can subscribe too. If video makers had an easy way to disable ads for direct subscribers, I bet almost all of them would do it right away.
