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0 pointsmrweasel1y ago0 comments

If you pay for the service, there should be no ads, so that's not an issue. As for artists trying to push their own listing ratio, why would that matter, If I pay $20 per month and play Taylor Swift 24/7 she'd get 100% of the money, minus the 10-20% to run the service, so that's attempting to pump up your own numbers would cause be a money losing exercise.

DRM, yeah okay, valid reason.

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mschuster911y ago

> If you pay for the service, there should be no ads, so that's not an issue.

IIRC, at least Netflix and Spotify have a "pay less, but get some ads" tiers, and YouTube doesn't want SponsorBlock et al to impact the golden geese too much.

> As for artists trying to push their own listing ratio, why would that matter

People have scammed streaming services for millions of dollars [1]. Sure, at their scale it's peanuts, but still eyewatering sums of money for normal people.

[1] https://www.gzeromedia.com/gzero-ai/the-10-million-spotify-s...

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