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Capitalism is an inherently adversarial system - Google's motivation is to extract as much value out of me at minimum cost to them. My motivation is to extract as much value out of them at minimum annoyance to me.

Technology sometimes tips the balance a little bit towards the individual and away from the megacorp. I don't see how that is a bad thing.

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So I suppose you also steal from the supermarket? If not why is that different?

> minimum annoyance to me

Stealing comes with a lot of potential annoyance - as it should. Skipping ads does not.

Companies already steal the user’s data, Google is a big leader in this behavior.

This is also a good point. YouTube didn't even had ads when it initially launched.

Corpos will try to shift the deal in their favor all the time, take as much as they can take away with.

I intend to do the same. If you just want to take it, that's your prerogative.

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