I am not paying for Youtube. Besides the cost, the last thing I want is Google to track what I view through logins and payment details (real name, address, etc.)

lmao the hypocrisy. you want to use a service and not pay for it- there's a word for it. its called "stealing".

Google can suck it. I won't pay or turn my ad-blocker off. I look forward to the day enough people do this and Youtube loses enough money to be shut down by Google. Creators will then go back to the good, old fashioned model of hosting their own websites and videos. The Internet was meant to be a decentralized network, not to be controlled by a handful of corporations. I hope GMail dies too. All of the problems we have today in cyberspace (including the "sideloading of apps" issue) only exist because of excessive corporate control.

> Creators will then go back to the good, old fashioned model of hosting their own websites and videos

LMAO. Nope they won't. They'll go to tiktok or some other platform where you'll surprise pikachu face have to watch ads. Ads powers internet. Someone has to pay server cost at the end of the day- either pay with your dollar or your attention. There's no other option.

I don't watch any ads (they are all blocked). I don't pay for any subscription of any kind. I am happy to run my ad-blockers and to sail the high seas. I don't feel bad for trillion-dollar corporations and wealthy influencers. If Youtube dies because enough people do this, so be it.

> Google can suck it. I won't pay or turn my ad-blocker off

I'm not sure what you want.. You want access to their service, they offer a premium.

You don't want to pay, at the same time you are not will to boycott them for moral reasons, so you instead you attempt to circumvent it by using ad blockers..

It's because they have killed all the alternatives. So you have no choice.

Though personally I watch very little YouTube. I have no patience for long vids and even if you pay for premium it's unwatchable without sponsorblock. If i need to start blocking I might as well go the whole way.

And no I don't feel bad for Google. This is not some old shop owner trying to make ends meet. It's an evil mega corporation trying to control and monitor our every impulse and enriching their already wealthy shareholders. Nobody will eat a spud less over this.

Don't choke on that big G

Ah I see we are resorting to no-argument argument strategy I see..

They can enforce it as a paywall then.

They could, but will likely face a mass exodus to (hopefully) a more decentralized system. Not so long ago people had their own websites and hosted their own content on their own PCs or a local "cloud" provider.

I'd rather people use a different video host.

Why would anybody give this criminal enterprise their money?

Why do you use YouTube if you do not find it ethical?

The content is there, why should I deny myself access to information if I find the entity gatekeeping it abhorrent? Should I also deny myself access to NIH data because of my feelings toward the US government?

Its not "gatekeeping". Its called paying for a service. NIH is funded by US taxpayers. Youtube isn't- they need to pay for the servers; it isn't free, you know.

You wanna pay someone else, feel free- vimeo, and a zillion other platforms exist - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_video_platforms

I think the idea is that you would have issues if someone decided to "fix" the gatekeeping of your wallet ...

Many creators offer patron or other services, I think you would be hard press to find any creator who only publishes their content on YouTube. You can subscribe to their services elsewhere.

Correction: free drugs are over.

ReVanced does more than ad blocking, e.g. SponsorBlock and others.

And as the parent already said, "I may as well get an iPhone".

Well go ahead- g/android isn't stopping anyone from moving to iPhone...

I myself use iphone cause I like the hardware quality (over android). I pay for youtube premium cause I like the service (over apple music for example)...

You can bellow as much as you want that you are losing a "free service" but nothin is free buddy at the end of the day. You get what you paid and youtube premium is one of the few services I find worth paying... Not worth it, you say? Feel free to bounce to a zillion other video platforms - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_video_platforms .

I don't think anyone is debating the morality of blocking the ads. People here care about the ability to even attempt to block ads.

Thanks for paying for my lunch

Im guessing you also don't pay for your utilities and tap into your neighbour's wifi/power/water etc?

The hypocrisy...

I wouldn't mind paying for lunch but they want me to pay for dinner and lunch.

Just allowed me to pay only for ad free and not include youtube music. I know youtube lite is a thing but its only available to limited countries.