Requiring payment would be a pay wall popping up requesting the user to submit payment either for that particular content or the privilege of viewing a suite of content before viewing.

Then all the people pirating your content via torrents or more likely watching something else would know what social convention they were flouting or submitting to.

Only on tech or creator related discussions are people even aware of the absurd idea that there is an obligation to watch ads or a requirement to subordinate your property, your computer that is, to some yahoo on youtube in order that he can earn money. Where no law is present and enforceable we cannot rely on social conventions we wish existed.

Just because you could make more money if people followed such a convention doesn't create any sort of obligation on their part nor in any meaningful way do terms and conditions bind them beyond being able to in theory take away an account they as consumers not creators don't care much about.

Ahh I see, a parasitic relationship.

Not accepting your terms doesn't make someone a parasite.

By your own description of what you're doing, yes it does? You've said nobody can make you contribute back to those creators via social norms so you will not, so within the system your actions are parasitic? You consume/use but contribute nothing back, how is that not parasitic?

Because the creator doesn't experience any per unit cost of content distributed only google does and the unit cost of bandwidth is so close to zero it would be hard to enumerate.

I do buy things. I agree to buy them before I fork over my money and I reject deals that I perceive would disadvantage me. That makes me a smart consumer.

A paywall is a way to signal that you require payment. Some people do that with Patreon and unlisted YouTube videos.

There's no arguments to force unwilling viewers to watch ads. The kind of people that install this extension are also presumably the kind of people that never follow ads, so allowing them to skip those ad segments doesnt result in a loss for advertisers. That they end up watching ads too is a simple effect of the ad market's inefficiencies.

The number of convertions from sponsored segments shouldn't move much from this extension, so the payout for video creators should also remain constant.

Its a win/neutral situation for everyone.