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My solution seems ethically valid: I watch the majority of YT videos on a browser with adblocks turned off, but if it's a long technical video I'm trying to lea

My solution seems ethically valid: I watch the majority of YT videos on a browser with adblocks turned off, but if it's a long technical video I'm trying to learn something from, then I use a full adblock setup on a different browser because the advertising interruptions make concentration impossible. I suppose if I was rolling in money I'd just pay for premium - though I'm sure all that data would also be fed into their user-marketing-optimization database and sold on to whoever, which I also dislike.

cvoss 3y ago
Interesting, I was expecting to hear kind of the opposite: that you'd selectively tolerate the ads on videos that meet some bar (where that bar might be quality, importance, education, artistic value, personal support for the creator, etc.) and then leave the ad blocker on for all the junky other things that we honestly need less of. But maybe you only watch good non-junky things anyway, in which case, carry on.