Maybe Google makes money by selling other people content but they provide all the infrastructure to allow content creators to have their business first.
Bypassing the ads is hurting mainly content creators, not Google...
No, it hurts Google too. Google isn’t some benevolent actor operating youtube at a loss. It’s a cash cow now.
I'm also a content creator myself, guess what, most of my revenues come form ads, not Patreon.
Again, they give you the options: subscription model or ad-based model.
This covers the cost of infrastructure, paying creators, and paying developers.
It doesn’t make sense that they or any other company will host and send you video for free at a financial loss to themselves because you’re watching it on “your computer.”
Then again, we live in a world where drugstore makeup needs to be kept behind lock and key, so this shouldn’t be surprising.
They offer those options, but the fact remains that there is a third option: ad-free no-subscription model.
As a user of the ad-free no-subscription model, I give them two options: internalise the costs of people taking the third option, or spend time and resources trying to make the third option technically impossible.
You can’t buy a word processor without non-English dictionaries, buy a fivepack of beer, buy half an apple, etc.
That’s no reason to then find it reasonable to take that, let alone take that for free.
I don’t understand this sentiment AT ALL. Google has built an entire business out of scraping and selling other peoples content. YouTube has become the defacto host of virtually ALL VIDEO. So yeah, I would watch a video without ads.
This is the internet. If they send the ad and the video and I use a program to hide the ad but watch the video thats my choice. Its MY computer. If they want to take steps to stop this thats up to them.
Advertising is disgusting honestly and your statement in my opinion is an ice cold take