I already watch enough ads when I watch some Youtube on my TV.
This is like when game companies thought that killing piracy would increase their sales.
I think YouTube doesn't realize the size of the beast they're provoking if they intentionally break downloaders, adblockers, and alternate clients.
If this is a cat and mouse game of technical prowess between hackers and Google engineers to consume content without ads, Google will either lose or use the government to do violence on open source developers.
If that game begins in earnest, then people will fear for the long term existence of YouTube, and it will become self-fulfilling as people mirror content on other sites until the cat-and-mouse game becomes pointless -- investing ever more money into ever smaller returns.
New video sites will gain massive number of users and over-inflate in value if there's a YouTube exodus and the process can begin anew.
how is it like that at all?
YouTube says: hey guys, it costs a bunch of money to host exabytes of video and a video CDN, so we either need to show ads or charge you the price of two pints a month.
what secret third option would you like them to offer?
Google is already making a lot of money from me and it doesn't stop there. They spy on me. They process every bit of data they can find of me even if I don't want to and I don't see a cent.