CileTheSane

Sure, if someone knows her physical address, knows how to disable the building alarm, knows what drawer she keeps the passwords locked in, and knows how to pick the lock, she could be in trouble. But that is a very targeted attack and if someone is that determined she's screwed anyway.

99.9% of attacks are the "low hanging fruit, protected from repercussions by not physically being there" kind.

I don't know why you're arguing with me, I use words from the dictionary so you're basically just arguing with the dictionary by another name.

If you pay me more money I'll shit on your lawn less often

I remember when I first downloaded an ad blocker. For quite a while I didn't bother, ads didn't bother me and websites need to pay for hosting somehow. Then I encountered an ad that SCREAMED "HELOOOOOO" any time you moused over it and I immediately downloaded an ad blocker and haven't been without since.

Fuck advertising companies, they are the reason ad blockers are so prolific. If ads aren't bothering you then you're not noticing them, meaning they're not doing their job so ad companies will develop new ways to bother you with them until you refuse to take it anymore.

I have a pile of shows on my media tower to watch instead.

The amount of people who:

1. currently use an ad blocker to watch YouTube, and
2. would be willing to watch the ads or pay for premium if their ad blocker stopped working

Are not statistically significant to YouTube's viewership or income.

You act like this is some secret they keep, they literally tell you on their website that Bing is one of their sources: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/

You've exposed nothing. I don't care how they source it, I care how they deliver it.

They share hosting servers, that doesn't make them the same service. When the power goes out do you think you and your neighbors live in the same house?

At best this is as intelligent as saying Google Maps is YouTube by another name because they're both on Google servers. Even that would be smarter to say actually, because Google Maps and YouTube are owned by the same company.