Speak only for yourself. In the meantime, I use uBlock.

I'd pay YouTube if it were $5/month instead of $15.

In fact, a couple of my favorite YouTube creators are on nebula.tv and I pay them $30/year.

It's one or the other. If you pay YouTube for Premium and don't get any ads, advertisers don't pay for your ad impression.

This can't seriously be surprising for anybody, youtube with its on-demand unlimited video storage and streaming has to be one of the biggest money sinks on the internet.

*and we block YouTube ads to not show ads

Ever heard of Elsevier? You pay them for the privilege of posting your article, and then they charge other people for the privilege of accessing it.

And in return, YouTube serves video and pays creators.

I scrape videos off of YouTube using Pinchflat which dumps them into a folder, predownloaded for me, which I then have connected to a Jellyfin server that splits each channel up as an individual series, ads and bumpers stripped entirely, and it automatically downloads videos as they release.

Paying sounded too involved. Make a google account, etc...

Who has the time?

not the first time capitalism asks you for money to solve problems capitalism created...

As a highly experienced software developer, I'm available for not writing software at a reduced rate of $45/hr, and I can handle unlimited overtime.

YouTube keeps uBlock functioning to keep me going to their website.

The thing with advertising is that the advertisers make more money in product sales from people who watched ads than they spend telling YT to push their ads. That's just how the advertising business works.

In other words, either the viewers pay youtube not to show ads, or the viewers pay the advertisers to pay youtube (in a roundabout way).

So it's just you paying in both cases, unless you use an adblocker :)

PSA: firefox + ublock origin blocks youtube ads even on mobile (on android at least)

Youtube sends me data, I simply do not accept it. Simple as. No higher argument is needed

Meanwhile YouTubers don’t get paid enough so they still show you their ads.

The bourgeoisie (parasites) pay the bourgeoisie (parasites) to make their service worse in an attempt to extract more capital from you. You give the bourgeoisie capital… to stop them from making their service worse in order to take your capital?

This is a lose lose for you and a win win for corpo scum. Use an Adblock, take to the seven seas, use platforms that are decentralized. Then it’s a win win for you and, added bonus, it’s typically parasite free.

The US Postal Service should get in on this action.

Well yes, that's how they don't go out of business. In theory.

So you're saying the audience for the ads have the people who are willing to pay for stuff, the very people the advertisers are paying to reach, removed from it.

I wonder how much longer this will go before the advertisers catch on to that.

And yet they show us ads even if we do pay.

"We"? Who's "we"? There is no "we".

So anyways, I installed Firefox with ublock origin and Sponsorblock

You forgot the part where they pay the video creator 50% of the money and use the other 50% to run one of the most computationally expensive and complex services on the internet.