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My PC, my rules.

Everything on my PC is on my terms, and I don't watch ads.

Only when they pay me for the use of my computer equipment and network traffic, do they have any claim to tell me what I must watch on it.

They don't like it, they can feel free to not send me network traffic.

If they really don't want people to watch without ads... surely a tech company of their calibre is capable of blocking content server side, or putting it behind a login.

Forgive me for not feeling morally inadequate compared to a multinational that happily takes ad revenue for toddlers on ipads having their brain fried by endless AI slop that they refuse to moderate.

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Their video platform, your rules? Nah mate, you're just being weird now if you think this is a one way street. You can block ads all you want in your computer but they'll have just as much right to stop serving you videos when you're blocking ads.

Also stop leaving your children unattended on brain slop videos. You're basically speaking out of both sides of your mouth.

Today it's that they're not moderating the content and tomorrow it's a complaint of censorship.

>their video platform

When I go to the cinema, that's the cinema's video platform.

In my house, on the equipment that I paid thousands of dollars for and support, using the connection I'm paying for... that's my platform.

>they'll have just as much right to stop serving you videos when you're blocking ads

That's literally what I said they should do. "They don't like it, they can feel free to not send me network traffic."

>stop leaving your children unattended on brain slop videos

I don't have kids. But I have, out of morbid interest, been down the rabbithole of the weird ultra-creepy AI stuff that comes up in their "childrens videos" category.

Some of those creepy AI channels have millions of subscribers.

It's all obviously some kind of weird scam, but google would still be getting ad revenue for it.

If they're going to have a childrens videos category, then obviously they should be moderating it.

For adult stuff yes I would complain of censorship.

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