[Zinu]

Money from advertisers doesn’t decrease long-term without uBO/yt-dlp users (since they don’t watch ads and pay for them). So less operating costs for Youtube, and more money for creators (in theory, if YT doesn’t keep the costs savings). That should help the platform, not kill it.

[guerrilla]

It's not about that. It's the network effect and motivating making alternatives viable. Other sites might get good as a result of the exodus.