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Yep - if you block youtube ads in the browser, google doesn't pay out to the maker. Sure, it's only tiny fractions of cents - but I consider it stealing.

• SlowRobotAhead 7y ago
  I’m doing to take the downvotes on this... That’s not stealing. I didn’t agree to watch ads or see to it that you were paid for putting up a video that you put up for fun or art or habit or hope. I don’t think you should be entitled to be paid for content you voluntarily put up on someone else’s computer. You didn’t agree to contract that asked you to produce content. If all art was thought of like this - there would be no art. Guess what, sometimes you’ll make something and won’t be paid back for doing that. You do it anyway because you want to improve your art, you want to get better, or express something else even if no one receives it, you do it “to put in the work, son.” If you want to post YouTube videos, do it! That’s cool and maybe I’ll enjoy them, but I’m not stealing by not engaging in the system of their choice to make money that you hope they share a tiny fraction of with you. Sorry, but no. I choose not to participate. If you think that’s stealing; well, I’m glad that you’ve never had anything actually taken from you to allow for such a misuse of the word.