Well the section you’re quoting is going a step past what I posted. There are multiple steps here. Once you’ve accepted that 1) Google wants to offer an ad-free subscription and 2) some content owners will not agree to their terms, Google has three options:

The key issue here is that they could then not say “YouTube Red lets you enjoy videos across all of YouTube without ads.” An example of what you’re talking about is Hulu. Hulu has seven shows that did not agree to their no commercials plan, so it’s easy for them to list out the seven shows. Because Hulu has frequent…