[lightbyte]

>Look, bandwidth costs money.

You're right, and I already paid for it with my ISP. I only get a set amount of data each month, so you can be sure I'm going to block 100% of the ads I can to stop them from wasting my limited bandwidth.

[Veratyr]

> You're right, and I already paid for it with my ISP.

No, you paid for bandwidth from your ISP to you. Your ISP doesn't pay anyone else for traffic. YouTube also has to pay your ISP and that cost is made up from ads.

[ue_]

I don't see why it's my responsibility to see Youtube makes money. If they didn't want me to consume the content, they would have a model in which you can't view the content without subscribing for a fee. And yet Google knows about adblockers and continues this model, suggesting that they are fine with people skipping the ads. I assume you do not download things you do not want, so I am merely doing the same thing.

But even that is beside the point. I believe it's fine for me to access whatever information that people release. I see no moral problem here, and I will choose what the bandwidth I pay for is spent on.

[Veratyr]

> I don't see why it's my responsibility to see Youtube makes money.

It's not your responsibility to make YouTube profitable but if you enjoy the content, it's in your best interest to contribute to it, whether it be through watching ads or subscribing. The service needs some amount of money just to cover bandwidth and maintenance but more importantly, most of the money from those ads/subscriptions goes to the people who make the content you watch, many of whom can't do so without that money. Those people also can't choose to block adblockers.

> If they didn't want me to consume the content, they would have a model in which you can't view the content without subscribing for a fee.

They do. It's called ads. You can't watch the video until you watch the ads.

> And yet Google knows about adblockers and continues this model, suggesting that they are fine with people skipping the ads.

Or they don't want to get into an arms race just yet.

> I assume you do not download things you do not want, so I am merely doing the same thing.

The download of the thing you don't want here is the payment, not the product. Most of us do pay for things we want.

> I believe it's fine for me to access whatever information that people release.

What's your profession? I believe it's okay for me to promise you payment in exchange for your work then take it without payment.

[fjdlwlv]

Yeah and my supermarket is totally cool with me shoplifting because they haven't stopped me yet.

[ue_]

The supermarket is obviously not cool with you shoplifting beacuse they have security guards that try to stop you from doing it, and they call the police when it happens.

[deelowe]

I can't believe I'm reading such an ill informed comment on hacker news of all places.