it's not the same thing. it looks the same to you, because you don't give a shit, but it's not the same.

I want ad-free viewing on any youtube client in my house, and I do not want to maintain infrastructure to allow that. The terms of the service indicate that I should pay if I want an ad-free experience, so that's what I do.

Some unknown portion of my subscription fee goes towards the monetization of videos that I watch, which I definitely want to happen. Ad blockers don't pay people in lieu of ads, and youtube premium does.

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benjiro 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

> I want ad-free viewing on any youtube client in my house, and I do not want to maintain infrastructure to allow that.

Firefox + Adblock/uBlock works on mobile, and desktop. If your TV blocks firefox, buy a dongle or mini-pc and use that. And way better for your privacy anyway. And a mini-pc gives you tons more capabilities like emulators etc. You literally buy those intel n100 mini-pcs for like 100 bucks.

If my 70+ years old parents can do that without my help, ... So no, need to maintain a "infrastructure" to blocks ads...

> Some unknown portion of my subscription fee goes towards the monetization of videos that I watch,

> Some unknown portion of my subscription fee goes towards the monetization of videos that I watch, which I definitely want to happen. Ad blockers don't pay people in lieu of ads, and youtube premium does.

You do realize that what Youtube pays out these days is so small amount, that most creators resorted to sponsoring. This is way more profitable for the youtubers involved. The add revenue is more like icing on a cake, not a main source of income.

And ironically, Youtube is one of the best paying platforms for creators. That is saying a lot.

If i remember correctly, for many its barely 1/5 of their actual income. There is a reason why you see those constant creator advertisement for whatever VPS service etc... and merch sales, ... that is where the money is.

Not taking in account the algorithm and its non promoting videos even if your subscribed, the constant DMCA issues where creators lose tons of money on false claims, ...

	▲	naikrovek 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		> Firefox + Adblock/uBlock works on mobile Only on Android. A large portion of users are not on Android.

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iamacyborg 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> it's not the same thing. it looks the same to you, because you don't give a shit, but it's not the same

I give a shit, I just give more of a shit about my personal privacy and my data not being shared with hundreds of anonymous third parties through the advertising auction mechanism than I do about a creator being paid.

Give me ads without RTB and I’ll very seriously reconsider my adblock usage.

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mastercheif 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

You can use Premium with an ad blocker

	▲	gkbrk 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Apparently if you did that, your views didn't count so creators didn't get anything from your money.

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naikrovek 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Please tell me how analytics information about what videos you watch is an invasion of your privacy. Google already has the info, they serve it and their servers have logs which get analyzed.

it is impossible to download something from the web without a log line entry being generated, so what privacy are you losing? Please tell me.

	▲	iamacyborg 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The RTB auction mechanism fires off personal identifiers as part of the auction mechanism to hundreds of third parties. This is problematic to me because my browsing history is being profiled by random companies I’ve never heard of or consented to process my personal data.
	▲	greycol 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Because google links that information to what you do in other places of the internet. I don't care if my church knows my favourite hymn or my sex store knows I buy sex toys, I care if my church knows I buy sex toys.