That’s the point. You cost them money, because streaming is really expensive and skipping or blocking ads doesn’t make money.
The moment I was presented with an ad-blocker notification by YouTube, I subscribed to Premium. I won’t watch ads. If it gets too expensive I’ll quit.
True, we can’t let the trillionaires miss out on revenue streams. Super yachts don’t pay for themselves, plus shareholders have bills too.
I get your point, we need to tax these assholes to hell and back. Wealth inequality is one of the biggest global social issues of the time.
But that does not change that YouTube is barely profitable, and will be eventually shut down if it’s not at least somewhat financially viable. It’s a private endeavor. That’s just how that works. If we want that service to stick around, someone will have to pay for it. I’m open to suggestions of funding a public alternative, but YouTube as a business needs funding, whether we like it or not.
It’s a service / product I value at a certain amount. That sounds like a bad thing?
In many ways, yes absolutely. By being a mindless consumer “just buying a product”, you leave it up to the balancing of the economy to determine if that is a wise decision or not.
Last I checked, giving a rich person even more money is always a stupid move.
There are many other ways of making money for someone like me. Make good merch. Make an actually good platform i would like to invest in instead of the garbage platform its becoming. Make it possible to pay directly to channels i watch (and take a small cut) make the platform more open so people can contribute to the function of the playform with great addons and optimizations. Make adds that are not intrusive to the content. Make the creators actually control the adds so it’s up to the creators when, where, what and how much adds should be shown (like in the old days) … I could continue, but I do not have any sympathy for a monopoly platform that YouTube has become.