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A comment on YouTube's new anti-adblock measures. Parent comment

Re:YouTube's new anti-adblock measures by PaulDavisThe1st on Saturday June 21, 2025 @11:08AM (#44338159)
> Personally I don't care if creators get paid or not, I have enough financial problems as it is and I have no capacity to add the problems of complete strangers on the internet to the pile.

Then stop watching youtube. You're just free-riding on the backs of whatever mechanisms exist to motivate the people who make videos to keep doing so. Plenty of other things to do in life other than watch videos you think are worth precisely zero <currency-units>.

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Re:YouTube's new anti-adblock measures by malka1986 on Sunday June 22, 2025 @07:47AM (#44346104)
> Then stop watching youtube.

Why would I, since I can watch it for free without ads ?

> Plenty of other things to do in life other than watch videos you think are worth precisely zero <currency-units>.

Oh they definitely are worth something. But I also definitely do not want to give Google money.

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Re:YouTube's new anti-adblock measures by ManlyBread on Sunday June 22, 2025 @03:01PM (#44349408)
Or I could continue to watch YouTube and ignore this insane rule that seems to exist solely in your head.
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