>You're saying that if you hate the sin (intrusive ads), you're not allowed to love the sinner (content).
No. I’m not.
What’s bogus is you spent this many paragraphs attacking a strawman consisting one sentence instead even one actual point I made, but I digress.
The content and the content creator are not the same.
The content doesn’t “sin” and I’m sure you knew how ridiculous that sounds the moment you typed that. (But of course you also couldn’t say content creator because... that’s clearly not what I said.)
The content creator puts their content on a platform belonging to a content provider.
The content creator and provider both want to make money. My comment is referring to how the provider makes money (which, wouldn’t you know... pays to deliver the content!).
You can support someone on Patreon that then in turn uploads to YouTube (it’s not even uncommon). You’re then funding to two separate entities separately.
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But you know what? Now that a I think about it I’d even go as far as to blame the content creator a bit more since they chose the platform.
I mean take your “better meditation” example. Is there a reason it’s intentionally uploaded to the platform with mid-video ads? Then monetized it and enabled ads?
You know ads are enabled because the uploaded chooses to monetize be video right? They chose to subject you to those ads because they want money.
They didn’t choose the ad, but they know video ads are allowed to interrupt their content, it’s no secret.
So I won’t even say they’re faultless.
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>it's probably beneficial to YouTube to hear the conversation about what users block and what they dislike
Yeah... they already have ways to do that.
You can dislike ads, you can click the info button and let them know when a topic is no longer relevant to you.
From time to time you get ads that are just asking if you actually cared about an ad topic “Which if these have you seen an ad for recently?”
You can go into your Google profile and select interests in a much clear way than their guessing.
I do these things and now instead of a constant reminder of the car I bought months ago I get interesting movies I wouldn’t have heard about otherwise, or useful products.
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So in summation...
>You're saying that if you hate the sin (intrusive ads), you're not allowed to love the sinner (content).
No.
>You're saying that if you hate the sin (intrusive ads), you're not allowed to support the sinner (content provider) by consuming content on their platform.
Yes. I mean, you’re allowed to do whatever you want, but the alternative is simple hypocrisy if you try and paint it as something noble meant to change how they do business.
The funny thing is I don’t think Adblock in itself is hypocritical. It’s just when you add in the virtue signaling and “we’re just trying to make YouTube a better mousetrap!” that my eyes start to roll back into my head and the irony hits a little too hard...