It's crazy to me how people are completely blind to inferring things. YouTube is no longer using ads to pay the bills. They're using them to be user hostile.

It's crazy to me how people are completely blind to inferring things. YouTube is no longer using ads to pay the bills. They're using them to be user hostile. Normally I would say "just use a different service". But YouTube is a de facto monopoly. Hence, if YouTube wants to act user hostile, you are well within your moral rights to be service hostile. The same people telling us to 'just watch ads' then complain when the web gets a bit more crappy the next week, when another service or site uses the shifted window of tolerable behaviour to become more user hostile in chase of a bigger cut of the loot.