You're not hurting YouTube by blocking ads, you're hurting the people who get ads from their videos.
Just pay for Youtube Premium - its no different than Spotify or Apple music price-wise and people shell out for that without thinking every month.
But... The point is exactly that the business model is either ads or you pay directly. Your response is that because there's the ad option ( which let's face it, the vast majority of people prefer), you wouldn't pay to remove ads? That doesn't really make any sense.
You can't rail against ad-based business models and not accept the only possible alternative.
Yes, I'm not gonna pay to remove ads. Paying doesn't actually remove all ads, just YouTube's, it won't do a thing to the paid promotion segments in videos. Paying also makes my attention even more valuable to advertisers, I want it to have zero if not negative value. It also doesn't stop adtech's endless tracking and surveillance capitalism, it encourages it.
> You can't rail against ad-based business models and not accept the only possible alternative.
That's far from the only alternative. You can charge money for your work up front. You can make a patreon, I've seen plenty of YouTube creators doing this with considerable success.
As a video platform owner, you should pay creators, you should pay for all the server costs which is capable of 4k+ streaming, besides you serve all the music and pay royalties.
0: https://youtu.be/aaoVlFVqYuk?t=20
1: https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/totalbiscuit-youtube-red-p...
2: https://twitter.com/LinusTech/status/1486935690315112455?s=2...
LinusTechTips made a video specifically about the issue of Vanced from the perspective of a user as well as a creator.
We don't have to justify it. We simply don't want to see ads. That's the end of it. The second they insist on showing us ads despite our preferences, their software becomes malware and will be blocked.
And nobody is "taking" anything off anyone's plate. They're the ones sending us free stuff bundled with ads. We're just deleting the noise. Just like ripping ads out of magazines and throwing them away.
They do so hoping that I'm gonna look at the ads. I'm not obligated to make it happen.
Replace "see ads" with "pay money." Pirates are thieves and content theft is piracy.
> Completely screw over small businesses and screw the content creators. On a venture capitalist forum
Then please try to screw VCs (not innocent people in developing world that want to see something for 1GB data per month and they lose so much money for ads). Sure please bill the VCs.
Yes, the hypocrisy is unreal.
Yes.
> it's to cause people to feel a sense of fear/loss/inadequacy that they previously didn't and then present the product as a solution
Maybe a bit.
But, these days I think the real reason is the corrupctive influence ad money buys. Major media platforms censor at the whim of their advertisers. Content providers also do so.