[JAlexoid]

You can feel whatever you want, your rationalizations are wrong though.

And if someone uses false rationalizations to use ad-blockers, while claiming to support the content creators - I can only sense hypocrisy and entitlement.

[MisterKent]

It's a repeat of the long ago years when piracy and torrents were more popular. And people pretended that stealing movies was somehow ethical.

People will always justify a way to steal, when they can get away with it.

- they could simply not watch YouTube if the content is "99% not worth watching"

- they could pay to watch the content

- they could pay the creator on their patreons, and watch there

Be comfortable stealing and saying that it's stealing. Or pay with your ads / money. The hypocrisy is stealing and claiming that YouTube should somehow provide a service for free.