>They are an unethical use of the data produced by Youtube creators, who miss out on ad revenue which they worked hard to earn. What are you defining as "use o

>They are an unethical use of the data produced by Youtube creators, who miss out on ad revenue which they worked hard to earn. What are you defining as "use of the data", in this case? Viewing their content? If so, that seems like a skewed way of phrasing it. If I were a YouTuber, I would personally either be okay with or even actively encourage ad blocking/skipping. (Easy for one to say, I know, but, as light evidence, I have some popular open source projects and have run popular websites without ever displaying any sort of ads or sponsored content when I easily could have. And I've strongly considered the idea of trying to make YouTube videos regularly.) I think I have a slightly different take on the issue compared to most people who dislike ads. I don't actually care much about the personalization or the data collection, as long as there isn't a way for an employee to easily drill down into specific people and track their individual activity by their real identity (i.e. a human manually stalking individuals personally, like a few Google and Facebook and NSA employees have occasionally been caught doing; I understand only a tiny percentage of them would ever do this). I just inherently don't like advertisements and advertising. I don't want to see ads, anywhere, ever. I pay for YouTube Premium - I'd pay for Twitter Premium / etc., if I actually liked Twitter. If that didn't exist: mine cryptocurrency in my browser if you want (as long as consent is requested) and give some of that to them. Or use something like Brave's attention token thing. Or anything else. Don't shove advertisements and sponsored segments in my face. Or, at least, ask if I want to see the ads, first, and let me choose "no". I know it's difficult for content creators to make a living, and I know it's difficult to offer a service like YouTube or Twitter or Facebook for free. But I don't like this world of advertising. I want out. I hope there will be people like yourself who instead work towards building systems that let us slowly transition away from advertising models, like what Brave's trying to do.