>Just say that you want to leach from the website and not pay for it.

I'm tired of hearing this.

I use ad blockers, but I still had to sit through the "Wait 5 seconds to click through this ad" stuff. Then, it went up to like 30 seconds after you clicked through some ads. After a few more of those, it would escalate to not being able to click through the ad at all - you had to watch it in full before whatever you wanted to see. After a few further views, you then had to watch two ads before proceeding.

And you know what? I didn't mind that at all. That's how YT makes money, so whatever.

And then last week they told me to fuck off because I used an ad blocker that still let their ads through. So, now I mind. Fuck that.

Edit: Between this and WEI, it's hard not to see this as a part of a broader user-hostile plan from Alphabet.