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> YouTube is unusable without Premium or an ad blocker. I can't imagine that they have many users that doesn't have either. aside from millions of children on

• bee_rider 2y ago
  Sure but they are just experiencing the world for the first time and discovering what their “ground state” opinions and preferences will be. Surely exposing them to a deluge of ads can’t be harmful.
• mrguyorama 2y ago
  And also the millions of adults that DO browse the web without an ad blocker and don't pay for youtube premium. Like we don't have to wonder "aw man surely nobody suffers through this" because ad companies have expressly stated, in reports that must be somewhat accurate or else the SEC comes knocking, that only 1/3 people using their services uses ad blockers. More people than not are unable or unwilling to block ads, and experience that disgusting web that plenty of us know to be obscene, obnoxious, and probably just not healthy for your brain. But I bet every worker of google willingly chooses to browse that web without an ad blocker right? Surely they are happy to experience the same world they make their money from right?