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Re:Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS by barbazoo on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @02:22PM (#49525844)
> Surely the creator is getting some value from YouTube and YT expects to be compensated for that?

I'd imagine Google would start charging for videos that don't make enough money or heavily deprioritize them from discovery. That seems like a problem they could solve if they wanted to.

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Re:Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS by odo1242 on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @09:44AM (#49536131)
They don’t do this for the same reason GitHub isn’t getting rid of free repositories- it would create an opening for someone else
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