> What is the stance of the people who work against the revenue generation of the services they consume? Would the advertisers really want to pay for their ad

> What is the stance of the people who work against the revenue generation of the services they consume? Would the advertisers really want to pay for their ads to be shown to people who aren't interested in their products? Every ad view costs them money. (I know, there are also the advertisers who just want to spread their message and aren't selling any products..) If the ads are actually useful to people, would they still jump through all these hoops to block them? The ad supported model is only sustainable for the ad company if it is a win for both advertisers AND end users. "You are not paying for the (premium) service, so we will degrade your service and force you to watch ads so we can pay our bills" is usually a sign that youtube is chasing after short term profits at the detriment of it's own advertisers / end users imo. I know this is a little too simplistic and I don't have any real answers... but this is how i'm looking at this whole debacle.