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Disregarding your sarcasm, I did not call it tiring, and I've also never seen anyone make that misguided assumption.

4. Without ads, YouTube cannot exist

In my view, you did call it tiring and were thereby stating that you had seen someone make that assumption.

Saying "without ads, YouTube cannot exist" is not the same thing as saying "services cost nothing to host" at least in my view.