Comment by carlosjobim

1 year ago

That's a special case, which can be solved by buying YouTube premium. For general ad-blocking, the DNS filters work great.

What incentives does this enforce in the market? Strangling smaller players and reinforcing the dominant ones.

  • "We understand some users don't want ads so to monetize our product we allow those users to pay and not see ads"

    Your response: "I want to keep my cake and eat it too."

    I have a solution for you, stop using YouTube if you feel so strongly that a video platform should be free to use.

    I'm paraphrasing in the quotes, they aren't real quotes...