Re:Moving from YouTube to PeerTube
by DavideNL on Thursday August 20, 2020 @10:51AM
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If only that were true, and your money would go to the content creators, instead of Google... (who abuses our privacy in the process)
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YT Premium money going towards Google is part of the service contract - they provide the website, storage, bandwidth[0], recommendations, etc. I don't think Google sees adblock as the end of the world, given they don't ban or even try to curtail blockers (really because mobile ad viewership is rising over desktop), but in general they expect you to either pay them or watch ads for access to the website.
To be clear, I don't think using adblock is immortal - just that I personally like it when services offer a subscription that remove ads.