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You can share knowledge without optimizing for increased clicks leading to ad revenue. Let us not kid ourselves about the altruism of the youtuber.

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I do not kid myself, I said nowhere he is altruistic. I'd do the same thing if I were him - increase my income.

If somebody tells me now that I get a 20-30% salary bump right now and I need to make a silly face once a day I ask back: where do I sign?

Precisely my point. Where would you personally draw the line? Would you invent a new kind of unstoppable popup ad? Unbreakable DRM? Would you implement an overly complicated and error prone gym membership cancellation procedure?

You can easily justify all that to yourself for selfish reasons. That does not mean that I have to think it is ok.

yea, i totally agree with everything you are saying except that making a silly face in a thumbnail does not carry the same ethical weight (or really any at all) as unbreakable DRM or malicious pop-ups or uncancellable subscriptions. So i guess, in conclusion, i don't agree with you at all and i think your argument is complete horseshit. cheers!

It was an absolute pleasure to upvote that. Thanks, I needed the laugh.

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