Best course of action. More free time reading books.
And the web. Remember when we used to read things on the web?
Seems like a win for YouTube, they don't have to waste bandwidth on users that don't bring in any revenue.
and they don't have as many users rating videos and feeding the algorithm for the ones to do watch ads... YouTube still loses
I'm almost certain that the bandwidth cost is much higher than what they gain for recommendation algorithms. It's like saying "Yeah, that guy steals from your store, but at least now you know what's in demand!" (Not equating ad-block to stealing, just trying to show the value difference)
I really doubt this data is worthwhile considering their bandwidth and hosting cost.
Video hosting is at this day, almost a universal money losing scheme. YouTube is barely profitable, they need to make money, it is not even an option