[bllguo]

This is my picture: you are presented two options to pay, through ads or through plain cash. you refuse both and yet still feel entitled to the content. what do you object to in this framing?

To be clear, in the context of this discussion I don't care how you feel about paying through ads. It is their right to lock their content behind those gates.

[DoingIsLearning]

It is not binomial, plenty of content creators want their videos ad free and ask for donations through a donation platform. I engage with those.

If youtube wants to cover it's infrastructure costs with ads I will allow it when they stop tracking users.