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Google will stop paying them if they tried that.

• nkozyra 25d ago
  A weird line to draw since Google still owns the general ad web space.
  • doikor 25d ago
    It doesn’t cost cost google money to show that content. (It does cost someone else who google would be giving a cut of the ad revenue) YouTube videos actually have some real world disk space, bandwidth, etc costs just to show so if google doesn’t get to show an ad they lose money instead of an opportunity to make money.
    • charcircuit 24d ago
      AI inference for people's queries is not free.
• lern_too_spel 24d ago
  Firefox with uBlock Origin has blocked YouTube ads just fine on Android for years, and Google kept paying. uBlock Origin doesn't actually get installed by default on Firefox Mobile, but I'd wager that it effectively does.
• account42 23d ago
  That's even more reason for them to add it. The google payment has been a giant conflict of interest.