I pay for YouTube Premium to avoid ads because I hate ads. But I also like robust economic activity. So, I’m happy to pay a fee instead of seeing ads.
That reasoning can be used to justify any shitty practice.
Concerned about global warming? If you have an income it’s because of economic activity, most likely derived from emitting carbon.
Concerned about human rights in China? If you have an income it’s because of economic activity, most likely derived from trade with China.
Concerned about American workers getting fired for unionizing? If you have an income it’s because of economic activity, most likely derived from interacting with sales behemoths like Walmart and Amazon.
Therefore, I suggest you come up with a better rational for bad things. Or frankly stop trying to justify them. That also works.
Yep, and I drastically limited watching YouTube on-site because their advertising became untenably invasive. The last straw was when they tried to get me to pay money to back-track how much they made their product suck, rather than actually providing me value over the out-of-box experience a few years prior.
There’s some good content on there, but it’s not good enough to subject myself to that, or to reward such behavior with money.
Second, how is this a "balanced ideological fight" counterargumnet. Let's say I oppose Facebook ads as invasion of privacy (and I do). A person on the internet used Facebook ads to make money. Those are contrary why? It's not like I'm sitting here and was like "oh, now that someone made money on the ads, I'm totally in favor of them."