Well, that’s a profoundly bullshit update to the terms, YouTube. (adblock. adblock and support creators directly) I hope they fuck it up badly enough that they get their asses sued.
“Right to Monetize
You grant to YouTube the right to monetize your Content on the Service (and such monetization may include displaying ads on or within Content or charging users a fee for access). This Agreement does not entitle you to any payments.”
Pisses me off. I intentionally made sure I was opted out of the Partner program back when they offered it to channels my size (I’m not eligible anymore) specifically because I didn’t want anyone to watch ads. I’m not making videos for money, I’m making videos because I want to share things with people.
Now YouTube has decided to add ads… unless if you’re a Partner, where you have a completely different deal and can actually chose things for ads.
Please just adblock the crap out of them. I’m quite aware that YouTube costs a lot of money in terms of bandwidth to run, but they already make hand over fist in money from the large channels, they don’t need to monetize everyone. Hell, I doubt they’d even make more than a few cents over the entire lifetime of my channel; it doesn’t even make sense for them to do this.