> I hate ads, but I’m not paying for YouTube Premium either. That’s how it goes. I get ads.

No that's not how it goes. You get Ublock Origin and then you don't get ads. Simple as that.

If you don't like ads and don't fight against them it means you accept ads and want to see more of them shoved down our collective throat. At least from the perspective of marketers and industries who rely on ads. That's how we ended up in this predicament in the first place. Lazy compliance.

If Youtube isn't sustainable without ads, it should die so that natural selection can take over and so that a better ecosystem can finally take its place. Every single "Youtuber" hates the platform, mostly because it has zero transparency being a Google product. The viewers hate it too because it constantly takes down their favorite videos and creators and because it's full of ads.

The only reason it's (still) the main site for hosting videos is quite literally just ad-fueled inertia due to the intrinsic cost of hosting videos. If ads didn't exist the only sustainable solution would be something less centralized like Peertube. And to me that's a desirable outcome.

"The forest must burn to make room for new trees."

Authors or their institutions don't get a penny from paywalled papers either. Oftentimes they have to pay to publish. Authors choose the titles, sometimes reviewers (not paid a dime either) can demand changes to the title, and the academic editor (paid ziltch too) can require the changes.

This doesn't apply to arXiv though, as it is not peer reviewed nor edited and is funded by various institutions.

Admittedly the academic publishing system is so corrupt that it's hard to phantom, so it's easy to misunderstand it.

Typically you do pay for the papers (and publisher profits), either through taxes or inflated product prices.

Authors are from, let's see, china and california. Then I guess a good chunk of the HN crowd is entitled to bitching about the title?