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> What if Google would block your account and make you pay if you don't go trough enough ads?

I don't have a youtube account. If the day came where I was forced to be logged into youtube just to see a video at all I'd either find some kind of workaround (piracy, or maybe some kind of shared/proxy account) or I'd stop watching youtube videos. Under no circumstances would I pay Google to watch youtube videos and as long as I have some means to block ads available to me I'll keep blocking them.

I accept that my relationship with Google is adversarial and that they'll do everything they can to violate my privacy and make money at my expense. There have been times where I've gone to some lengths to block ads, for example never watching on the website and saving all videos to disk before viewing them, or not watching any videos for weeks while I wait for an update to tools like newpipe. I'll do what I have to. I'm mostly just waiting for Google to piss us off enough that we see people building and turning to alternative platforms that treat both viewers and creators better.