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		dzhiurgis 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The best YouTube downloaders, and how Google silen... That’s why authors should pony up and pay for the encryption feature and rest should be free to download. YouTube could embed ads this way too.

peteforde 3 months ago [–]

That's a wildly imaginative fever dream you're having. There is no timeline in which content creators would pay YouTube to encrypt their video content.

Almondsetat 3 months ago | [–]

Here's a thought: what if paying a fixed amount to encrypt your video would grant you a much higher commission for the ads shown?

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