timewarp

But you’re not. You’ve made several comments on this post criticizing the people who 1. want control over their own devices and 2. are sick of ads being forced into every aspect of their lives.

They have control over their devices. You're not making sense and can't even articulate how they don't have control. If they want even more control, they can install GrapheneOS or a plethora of third party ROMs that removes all Google services. Apple users can't even do that. No one is making them use YouTube either. Google allows third party apps that blocks ads. It isn't like a... "Ha, Google you're idiots we are smarter than you cause you are too stupid to block ads." Seriously, what kind of dumb person takes this attitude?

And I happen to think that a company throwing such an entitled fit over money, when they are making an immoral amount of profit that is increasing YoY, is super relevant when discussing the profitability of one of their services.

Dumb users are the ones throwing an entitled fit. Why is making profit immoral? If you want to say, "I'm anti-capitalist and don't think the world should be about money..." then just say that. It is a much stronger argument and one that should be discussed more, but singling out Google is dumb. In terms of ethics, they are still way better than most companies, including Apple & Microsoft... In what realitydoes it make sense to attack the more ethical companies before going after the least ethical?

YouTube doesn’t owe you cause they made profit

Read your previous comment.

People always complain when their convenience is removed from them. Welcome to the human condition.

Not always. If I go to a coffee shop and they give me a free one out of convenience... I don't go back and demand they keep giving them to me for free cause they did it once.

I can understand why people circumvent them too. I can't understand why they'd claim... "Hey Google, you suck at blocking ads. You can't stop us from doing it."

Seriously, fuck people that do this. Google knows people use third party apps that block ads. They might as well say... we're not happy not having ads. We want Google to block it entirely so we can be even more pissed off.

I don't care if you use ad blockers. I get annoyed when people publish articles like... "Google is losing the adblockers war" cause then advertisers are going to start pushing harder for Google to actually prevent adblockers entirely, which they could have done already. Thus far Google, despite issues, does quite a lot of good things... Android is the only open source OS out of Apple & Windows. Android lets you install third party app stores. Chrome (Chromium) is open source... etc.

These users writing this content don't even develop the apps to block YouTube ads. If you've ever explored the APIs by YouTube, then you'd know that Google despite pushing ads for users without blockers, is still rather friendly to third party apps.

I'm sorry... I didn't realize the reason that there are so many Starbucks in America, like literally caddy corner from one another is because their customer base is the "privileged minority." I'll have to remember that line.

In all seriousness, you could argue that ads prey on poor vulnerable people unable to afford YouTube Premium that just want to use it to learn, and that would be a semi-coherent argument.

Netflix has ads now? I thought that was only for their lower tier service? I had to cancel Netflix cause they haven't came out with two more seasons of Stranger Things yet.

People don't use NZBGet for that reason. It is literally a platform & distribution model primarily intended for pirating content in a way that is much quicker and more reliable than torrents. Usenet would probably have died without NZBs.

I don't care if you block ads... but to act like Google owes you and that you deserve free content is called entitled.