It would be logical for them to fight tooth and nail on this as it puts their business model at risk. Personally, as much as I dislike Google, I'd rather every

It would be logical for them to fight tooth and nail on this as it puts their business model at risk. Personally, as much as I dislike Google, I'd rather everyone get off their youtube addiction, rather than use adblockers (or other similar circumvention methods. Their popularity (IMO) sends a strong signal to the platform owner that people value their content so they should keep fighting against such tools. The pressure Google puts on content creators forces them to skew greatly towards quantity not quality, and other terrible metrics like "engagement". Adblockers put further pressure on them to go out and personally find sponsors. IMO this makes the situation worse as they're focusing on not pissing off advertisers, and stay away from being opinionated, etc. All this probably won't affect established creators, but pushes everyone else to be vanilla.