Well for one, what's the long term strategy of providing something for free, when your user base will simply use an ad blocker to block your one attempt at inco

Well for one, what's the long term strategy of providing something for free, when your user base will simply use an ad blocker to block your one attempt at income? YouTube in particular simply isn't possible without monetization, a substantial amount of that money at least does go to the creator. Also for things like reddit and Twitter, lazy users is the real truth. Instead of having to locate the forum for your obscure topic, you just see if there's on on reddit and call it a day.