I’m totally against corporate greed and all, but everyone knows that producing decent content is basically a full-time job. Producers need to put food on their own table, too. If people are against ads and against paid subscriptions at the same time, then where do they believe the money should be coming from?
It's a notable site (top 50 most visited) that has a partial overlap with the usual HN crowd, and it's sparked fears and discussions about "enshittification".
[These lines are filters. They are the rules by which the ad blocker (in this case u block) selects specific web content to remove when matches are found. Apparently they can also find JavaScript content which is what they seem to do: removing the JavaScript parts of YouTube.com that show the ads]
I’m totally against corporate greed and all, but everyone knows that producing decent content is basically a full-time job. Producers need to put food on their own table, too. If people are against ads and against paid subscriptions at the same time, then where do they believe the money should be coming from?