Ublock doesn’t work for YouTube ads and never has. When I access a site I’m downloading some markup. I’m free to render that markup in any way I desire. It’s m

Ublock doesn’t work for YouTube ads and never has. When I access a site I’m downloading some markup. I’m free to render that markup in any way I desire. It’s my machine. My software. My experience. Nothing else should be able to dictate that to me. Ads are harmful. They are used to spy on and build profiles of people across the internet, gaining knowledge along the way that is intrusive, without consent from who it’s spying on. Sites are free to make money off their content. There are ways besides ads. Paywalls, subscriptions, donations, etc. Point is, they can make money in ways that doesn’t require telling their users how to do things on their own computers and doesn’t involve forcing malware and spyware onto their users. Nothing is being stolen. The html document was delivered on the public web internet with no restrictions. It was even delivered with the code to run ads. It was given to the world. How the world renders that document cannot somehow change that into a theft.