[jart]

You're not going to shut them down, it sounds like they shut you down. Just pony up the $100/year. It's the cheapest television has ever been. This is hacker news, not hobo news. If you've been using the Internet this long, then you should remember the outrageous amounts of money people were paying for cable television back in the 90's. And that still had ads.

[pasabagi]

Most content creators are either doing it for free, or getting a percentile of a cent on the dollar. As far as I'm concerned, that makes it communication infrastructure, not service provision. Youtube is providing the infrastructure, the creators are providing the service.

As I think that infrastructure should be publically owned, I'm happy to do my bit for nationalization, and use adblock.

[jart]

Then watch PBS lool.

[westurner]

Yeah pay for propaganda from the man.