That's one way of viewing it. The other way to view it is that YouTube pays tens of billions per year for content. Easily more than Netflix does.

Now, it is true they don't finance the production of that content up front, but then again they also don't get any rights to the works either. The original creators retain full ownership, unlike in traditional media production.

And? Don't make the mistake of thinking I have any love for Google. Or ads.

But you're no better than Google, in this case, taking the free content produced by others without compensation.

Except you're also acting self-righteous and superior about doing so.

Don't forget that Google provided all the hosting, storage, and advertising for the creator's content. So there is, in fact, a service being provided.

They're worse than Google in this exchange.

Lol... Implying I'm worse than the company that voluntarily complied with the illegal conspiracy by NSA employees to spy on the whole country via corporations as a loophole around the fourth amendment, to lie about it to the general public, and to lie about it to congress.

I'm worse than them for the grave, unforgivable sin of... viewing videos that other people put on the internet (without compensation) for the sole purpose of enabling other people to view the video... while I had the "wrong" browser extension installed?

Am I getting all this correctly?

> In this exchange

Literacy is dead.

This conversation between us is an "exchange". If you want disambiguation, write less ambiguous posts.