It costs money to be YouTube and host millions up on millions of videos Pay for YouTube premium to avoid ads. Don’t want to pay? Then watch the ads. Ad blockers are theft.
“Ad blockers are theft.”
Lol. I consider it shoplifting.
Brainwashing ads cause so much anxiety people are having to get a prescription for adblock from their doctors.
AdBlock and support content creators by buying their merch.
“Ad blockers are theft.”
Ads are theft.
Ads steal my bandwidth that I pay for.
Ads steal my screen space when I didn’t ask for them.
Ads spy on us, stealing our personal information everywhere we go on the Internet.
Ads steal my processor, memory, and storage space.
Ads are theft, which is why people instinctively hate them.
Cable TV was pay for no commercials-
Similar, to YT it will eventually be pay for ads as well-
besides GOOG’s entire business built on theft of our data and colluding with big tech.
Appeal to law and order is not convincing to me.
“Then watch the ads.”
You want me to watch ads, then pay me to watch them.
Watching YouTube for ten (10) minutes ) and the ad blocker blocked 100 ads , ONE HUNDRED !
On some conservative but mainly Christian channels, YouTube puts in ads but the creater gets none of the money because their videos are “controversial”
“Ad blockers are theft.”
I have no virtue—I guess I can add “thief and proud of it” to my resume of dishonor.
;-)
“Don’t want to pay? Then watch the ads. Ad blockers are theft.”
Don’t track me across multiple media properties then. Online Ads are malicious invasions of privacy. Ad-tech spends millions on neuroscientists to develop techniques to try and get past your limited natural defenses. All to persuade you to do something you would not otherwise do.