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This is literally the internet nowadays without an adblock
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I cannot understand how some people are living with this. It is unbearable
Why should YouTube content be free?
Because the uploaders are doing it for free and it's been working the way it currently has been, free for 20 years.
If YT had made it their monetization scheme to charge users for an account - by all means. They did not, they set up the expectation of their product that it is free*.
There is no reason that YouTube should suddenly be for pay or forced ads to use it. If they wanted that, they should have started out like that. If they wanted to not run at a loss, they should have planned for that. They did not, and it's not on the users to suddenly make up for that shortsightedness.
Tl;Dr, while you can set up a foundation and decide to change it decades later doesn't mean anything. The expectation from the users has already been set.
YouTube doesn't owe you this. It's up to you and creators to accept it or move away
But YouTube DOES have advertising and they have had advertising for a decade, everyone that uploads content knows this and accepts it and in many cases is able to monetize their own content. You are arguing that you are entitled to use third party software to personally avoid ads, and your only argument for it is that you've been doing it a long time.
Then google should have done a better job vetting the ads so they don't have malicious redirects or malware so that users wouldn't feel the need to run adblocks to be safe.
In fact, Google as the most pervasive advertiser should probably have done that for all ads. I imagine if they weren't so terrible, ad-blocks wouldn't be so prevalent.
It shouldn't necessarily be free, but the information about whether or not I've seen their ad is privileged. AdBlock detection is an invasion of my privacy and therefore AdBlock blocking must be circumvented.