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Furthermore, even if a user pays for YouTube premium, they do not necessarily receive an ad-free experience - they may still see ads within the video they watch, such as sponsored segments.<!-- I need a source for this. Very obvious statement but it's not like the YT marketing materials are going to outright say this. --> YouTube has added a "skip" feature, but it has been reported that this does not work consistently.<ref>[https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/youtube-now-lets-you-skip-sponsored-segments-but-youll-have-to-pay-for-it-2872784/ YouTube now lets you skip sponsored segments — but you’ll have to pay for it] Dexerto. August 22, 2024. Retrieved January 30, 2024.</ref> | Furthermore, even if a user pays for YouTube premium, they do not necessarily receive an ad-free experience - they may still see ads within the video they watch, such as sponsored segments.<!-- I need a source for this. Very obvious statement but it's not like the YT marketing materials are going to outright say this. --> YouTube has added a "skip" feature, but it has been reported that this does not work consistently.<ref>[https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/youtube-now-lets-you-skip-sponsored-segments-but-youll-have-to-pay-for-it-2872784/ YouTube now lets you skip sponsored segments — but you’ll have to pay for it] Dexerto. August 22, 2024. Retrieved January 30, 2024.</ref> | ||
==== Refusal to handle malicious ads ==== | ====Refusal to handle malicious ads==== | ||
A common phenomenon on YouTube's advertisements is content that is mature and/or malicious in nature.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B2KdIoRVo8&pp=ygUVeW91dHViZSBtYWxpY2lvdXMgYWRz</ref><ref>https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-explicit-ads-problem-3520285/</ref> Rather than working towards clearing these ads, or acknowledging this advertising content that has been harming consumers on the platform, YouTube moderation has only cut the revenue for these videos that attempt to call out these ads,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRpECEQ0-hg | A common phenomenon on YouTube's advertisements is content that is mature and/or malicious in nature.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B2KdIoRVo8&pp=ygUVeW91dHViZSBtYWxpY2lvdXMgYWRz</ref><ref>https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-explicit-ads-problem-3520285/</ref> Rather than working towards clearing these ads, or acknowledging this advertising content that has been harming consumers on the platform, YouTube moderation has only cut the revenue for these videos that attempt to call out these ads,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRpECEQ0-hg | ||
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=== Demonetization and censorship <!-- Maybe consider changing the title for this section... --><!-- Potential sources that require further studying before integration https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050921024467 https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3555209 --> === | ===Demonetization and censorship<!-- Maybe consider changing the title for this section... --><!-- Potential sources that require further studying before integration https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050921024467 https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3555209 -->=== | ||
Since at least 2016, YouTube has had an extensive record of censoring content that is demonetized.<ref name=":1" /> Within understandable circumstances, legitimately malicious or offensive videos would be demonetized and should not be shown on the platform, however, how videos are considered to be demonetized has had a harmful impact upon both viewers and content creators. Trans creators on YouTube for example, have experienced unfair censorship via demonetization since 2018.<ref>https://archive.yr.media/journalism/outloud/trans-youtubers-say-they-are-being-censored-and-an-algorithm-may-be-to-blame/</ref> Content creators affected by this unfairly balanced moderation via algorithms<ref>https://bpr.studentorg.berkeley.edu/2018/05/01/adpocalypse-how-youtube-demonetization-imperils-the-future-of-free-speech/</ref> have dubbed these events as "adpocalypses".<ref>https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/20/18231561/youtube-child-exploitation-predators-controversy-creators-adpocalypse</ref> | Since at least 2016, YouTube has had an extensive record of censoring content that is demonetized.<ref name=":1" /> Within understandable circumstances, legitimately malicious or offensive videos would be demonetized and should not be shown on the platform, however, how videos are considered to be demonetized has had a harmful impact upon both viewers and content creators. Trans creators on YouTube for example, have experienced unfair censorship via demonetization since 2018.<ref>https://archive.yr.media/journalism/outloud/trans-youtubers-say-they-are-being-censored-and-an-algorithm-may-be-to-blame/</ref> Content creators affected by this unfairly balanced moderation via algorithms<ref>https://bpr.studentorg.berkeley.edu/2018/05/01/adpocalypse-how-youtube-demonetization-imperils-the-future-of-free-speech/</ref> have dubbed these events as "adpocalypses".<ref>https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/20/18231561/youtube-child-exploitation-predators-controversy-creators-adpocalypse</ref> | ||
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====Offline video DRM==== | ====Offline video DRM==== | ||
The YouTube Mobile app allows you to download videos for offline consumption if you have a YouTube Premium subscription.<ref name=":0">https://www.youtube.com/premium </ref> However, the app's DRM prevents you from watching downloaded videos, unless the app has "phoned home" in the last 48 hours.<ref>https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6141269</ref> This caveat is not clearly disclosed on the main YouTube Premium page, instead requiring the user to navigate support articles to discover this limitation. | The YouTube Mobile app allows you to download videos for offline consumption if you have a YouTube Premium subscription.<ref name=":0">https://www.youtube.com/premium </ref> However, the app's DRM prevents you from watching downloaded videos, unless the app has "phoned home" in the last 48 hours.<ref>https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6141269</ref> This caveat is not clearly disclosed on the main YouTube Premium page, instead requiring the user to navigate support articles to discover this limitation. | ||
==== Universal DRM testing ==== | |||
YouTube on TV is a HTML5 web interface from Google to allow supported devices such as game consoles which do not have a native YouTube app to view content via YouTube. An A/B experiment has begun which protects all video and audio content regardless of bitrate or format via the YouTube on TV platform with DRM.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-03-08 |title=[YouTube] DRM on ALL videos with tv (TVHTML5) client #12563 |url=https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/12563}}</ref> One XBox 360 user reported that the YouTube on TV functionality stopped working as a result of the DRM implementation. A number of content creators licence their work uploaded to YouTube via the Creative Commons licences. The universal implementation of DRM to restrict a users ability to exercise their rights granted by the licence is a violation of the aforementioned licences.<ref>{{Cite web |title=License Versions |url=https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/License_Versions#Application_of_effective_technological_measures_by_users_of_CC-licensed_works_prohibited |website=Creative Commons}}</ref> | |||
===Paywalling standard browser features=== | ===Paywalling standard browser features=== | ||