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Anybody encountered a "members only" youtube video yet? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Was trying to watch something about a gun that I was looking at in a forum, and the link led to a youtube video that wouldn't play.

I was puzzled, but then I noticed that the video said it was for members only. I was perplexed, and I subscribed to the channel, but obviously that's not what it meant. I needed to be some sort of paid member to view the video.

I guess we're in the stages of the internet where things that were once free, and a sort of wild west as it were, like youtube, are becoming so monetized that eventually I just won't have to worry about wasting time watching youtube because there is no way that I'm buying a subscription just to watch short form factor videos.

Anybody else experienced this?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yep one of the videon in my playlist was suddenly members only. Fortunately it wasn't anything special but a worrying sign of things to come.

Interestingly, it seems it's been in the works since 2019.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I had no idea- this is easily the most disheartening news I've heard regarding youtube. Maybe it will help kill my addiction to it