No, people are getting mad because Youtube has been letting people use it with ad-blockers for 18 years (in practise, at least) and have now hardened their stan

No, people are getting mad because Youtube has been letting people use it with ad-blockers for 18 years (in practise, at least) and have now hardened their stance considerably. In other words, they got to the dominant position by being very lenient, and now that they are on top they are tightening the screws. This means that people who watched Youtube for up to 18 years with ad blockers are now forced to decide whether they want to pay money, watch ads, or stop using the service. None of those choices is better, except possibly morally, than the now-unavailable but previously-very-available choice of getting Youtube for free with no ads. If Google showed text ads for a few seconds before every search and used technical means to prevent people from bypassing that process, there would be a similar outcry -- even though everybody knows that it costs Google money to provide search results.