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>>The easiest way to avoid YouTube ads I found the actual easiest way to avoid YouTube ads, and maintain support for content providers whose services I enjoy,

• 1vuio0pswjnm7 6y ago
  The only way that works as a "business" is if Google also sells online advertising services. Nevertheless, the company must sell online advertising services as a business model in order to survive. This makes it arguable that the company is actively working against users supporting content providers by paying ("supporting") them directly. Google functions as a middleman selling online advertising services. It pays content providers a cut from the ad revenue, not from relatively small fees collected from a relatively small number of users who want pay an advertising company not to bother them. Depending on how much hazard risk one assigns to online advertising and the destruction of privacy by monopolistic actors that are seemingly immune from legal regulation and able to operate outside the law, this could be seen as some sort of "protection money". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_racket https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_racket
• felixg3 6y ago
  Ideally signing up via India. Fortunately, I got an Indian wife with a local payment method and a VPN. Now I am paying roughly 90 euro cents per month for a student subscription, as both discounts can be combined ;)