Subscriptions are very annoying. Every dot come wants only $9/month. Sure, that doesn't sound like a lot, except you never spend your day on a single dot com. I jump around to dozens of different sites. If I subscribed to every website I visited, it would cost me nearly $200/month.

I abandoned cable 15 years ago because they insisted I pay $85/month to watch 2 channels. I'm not going to start that shit again with Netflix + hulu + YouTube and so on. I'll move to something else.

Google seems to have worse marketing skills than Ma Bell had.

What they should have done was simply lower the quality of the stream if it detects an adblocker. Drop the resolution, stutter it, buffer it, even play a different video than the one selected every so often. No mention of adblockers or the consequences thereof. The people with adblockers aren't going to pay for content, if you want them gone make it a bad experience for them. Do it to a few people who don't have adblockers as well to throw off the scent and make it difficult to track down, then make some weak apology about how you're investigating the problem.

Good. The never ending war against unwanted ads continues unabated.

I won't allow you to use my viewing habits to make yourselves richer. That's the most jewish form of money making out there.

I might not even mind the ads if they had not misprogrammed their AI. They seem to have instructed it to insert ads times of high focus rather than when one scene transitions to another.

YouTube probably could have gotten away with this, at least with far less revolt, 10 years ago. The quality of content has dropped drastically on YouTube. It's all the same formulaic formats with the same obnoxious C list actors who sound like borderline informercial retards. Years ago I used to look for cool stuff to watch on YouTube, then I just stopped bothering because it wasn't any good. Then Google started pushing 10 minute YouTube videos in their search for things that would take 30 seconds to read. Then I stopped using Google search. With this I just flat started avoiding Google. I don't think they realize how their search manipulation and now forcing of ads is driving people away. They are far too arrogant. I'm sure there's lots of people like me who used Google stuff a lot more 10 years ago.

Forced online ads are an outdated, invasive, and unmoral method of selling. Moreso when it is unwelcomed and gatekeeping information/content.

Youtube needs to change their business model to sell services that people want to purchase that will only enhance their experience on Youtube. But instead, they hold previously free public information/content hostage and use advertisements as a way to facilitate forced interaction with their users.

Ad defenders will always exist in one form or another. To disallow ad defenders is to disallow the ability to filter information and protect against unwelcomed messages. Currently most ad defenders are very simple and primitive, they could easily evolve to block any form of advertisement transmitted.