[jacek]

"Charity" made me chuckle. YouTube by itself had an exponentially growing revenue since first introducing ads. In 2022 the revenue was at almost $30 billion (maybe this will better show that amount: $30,000,000,000) [1]. So yeah, go ahead and defend a monopolistic corporation that came to that position by basically doing bait and switch, and ridicule a small minority of people who just want to decide what they run and don't on their own devices.

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[1] https://www.usesignhouse.com/blog/youtube-stats#youtube-reve...

[yreg]

How is revenue relevant? Talk about their net profit.

[jacek]

Alphabet (Google) publishes revenue for YT, but profits only for the whole company.

[schnebbau]

What would their revenue be if everyone blocked ads?

[bamboozled]

Maybe they'd have to offer a normal paid for service and stop being a strange predatory company.

I pay for search now, I'd pay for a service like YT that had nothing to do with Google so long as my privacy was respected.