TL,DR:

YouTube is going to kill your grandma on Christmas Eve unless you disable as blockers AND send all the money you have to them in an unmarked envelope. No cops...

I heard about their plans maybe a month ago and i deleted all my stuff there and left youtube forever. I also already had deleted my gmail before that. I now use freetube on my pc and libretube on my phone.

It's tiring to have to take measures to make sure you can use the internet as it used to be, though. I feel like i have a digital armor with ghostery, encrypted email, foss software, etc, etc...

Greedy companies like youtube thinking tracking people is fine don't need my money. I won't end using adblockers.

Youtube can go fuck itself. I was one of the few people who was committed to not using an adblocker - corporate assholes or not, I recognized that advertising was why Youtube exists for free.

3 unskippable ads on every fucking video broke me. Youtube can burn, I'm just burning bandwidth until it does.

FUCK GOOGLE/YOUTUBE

*Laughs in nebula

I already only use FOSS front ends to access YouTube. If content existed elsewhere like Peertube or Odysee I wouldn't be using YouTube at all.

Ok. So why aren't we all using peertube?

I read that 2% uses adblocks...

Between uYouPlus on my Apple devices and SmartTubeNext on my Android devices, I’ve almost never seen an ad on YouTube. I’d just stop using the service if I started to see them in any real number.

Don't worry, I did something about youtube. That being uninstalled and only go there if I absolutely have to.

I'd be down to pay YouTube to watch 2k - 4k videos, I'm shocked they allow people to upload videos on that resolution to begin with.

Now, if they start intentionally blocking adblockers, or have a way to force around them (like Twitch) I'd immediately stop using it (like Twitch)

Too bad. If we can't block these ads, everyone will go elsewhere

laughs in DNS ad blocker

chortles in SponsorBlock

guffaws in AdNauseam