> I just don't think it's right to have to pay.
What makes you think it's right to be entitled to a free service?
You don't want to pay.
You don't want ads.
So ... then what?
What makes you think it's right to be entitled to a free service?
You don't want to pay.
You don't want ads.
So ... then what?
This way, you wouldn't have to pay (which is what the parent comment wants). But you would still have an incentive to pay, because if not enough people did, the content you liked might might not get made.
People posted out of passion, because there was no money. It was an intrinsic filtering to weed out profit seeking.
I don't like the idea of creators getting paid, generally speaking. Information should be free.
I don't see any difference between rent seeking and YT click bait regurgitating existing knowledge that's easily accessible