YouTube Ad-Blocking Ethics

Your usage of YouTube cost Google money. If you believe Google doesn't deserve your money, why consume their product?

It costs money to serve video. You're stealing from YouTube and by extension creators. No amount of mental gymnastics will change this.

You and your creators use yt as a service. Their servers and network. Payment and others. That services don't come for free. If you don't give them any money, why Google need to provide the services?If you don't like that, you can build your own server and steam from that.

I cannot help you with your contempt for other’s choices and your general cognitive dissonance. However do consider:- Creators use YT for ease of hosting, earnings for their effort, widespread dissemination- Users choose YT for ease of watching, content discovery, non-bloated UI/UXGoogle uses Ads to cover significant hosting and bandwidth costs, as well as to build quality features to help both creators and users alike.If this logic doesn’t make sense to you, so be it. But your

I pay for YouTube to support the platform and creators. If you don't pay for a service, you aren't the customer you are the product. Google may need to shut down the free viewership of most YouTube videos unless the creator pays for them to be hosted or the viewers sign up for a subscription. The ad model is clearly failing.

You're assuming YouTube is not loosing money with non-paying customers...

"Youtube is a video sharing platform. It's not sharing if I have to pay."

Because otherwise in the worst case Youtube can't remain free, which is arguably a good thing.

Youtube is a free service. Without ads, how could Google run the service?

youtube works without ads sure that means you the channel provider pays for the hosting and bandwidth.tell me how you want to pay for 500h++ of video uploaded to a platform every minute