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randerson on June 12, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: YouTube experimenting with server-side ad injectio...

After they disabled the site for ad blockers I begrudgingly shelled out for YouTube Premium. I've now come around to being OK with paying for the convenience. Much of the content I watch wouldn't exist without the revenue they get from ads or subscriptions. I'm sure some people will find creative ways to pirate content, but Premium is cheaper than Netflix and I watch more content on YouTube than Netflix so it seems reasonable to me.

OOPMan on June 13, 2024 [–]

Ad-blockers still work fine on the site tho, you're paying Google money for no good reason.

Money of which only a small part goes to the creators.

If you actually want to support the creators, do it via a more direct method than paying Google to send a few pennies their way.

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