The CPM on ads is a good way to look at this. On YouTube you get anywhere from 25 cents CPM to 4 dollars, usually dependent on where your customers are from. Let's put that on the high side since I'm in the US. Would I rather pay 0.4 cents per video view or see ads? You bet I'll choose to pay that instead. Now that covers the creator costs, Google needs to take a portion of that to run their platform, so let's round it up to 1 whole cent per video. I'm still game.

Now, you have to imagine the CPM is directly related to the value of the goods being sold. That scales per country. It's probably not the perfect proxy, but in the same sense that your viewers from other countries pay out different CPMs, they can probably afford different amounts per video.

It isn't about anonymity. It's about abuse of data. I'm not mad that I can't make anonymous phone calls, I'm mad that my phone provider sells my real time location data. I am happy to pay a company that preserves privacy and trust them with my information. This is a bit aside though, because I more or less trust Google with my information, I just don't like ads. It's not about anonymity.