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by gopkarthik 648 days ago
I'm not surprised that the video has been taken down since it explicitly talks about circumventing youtube ads or alternative interfaces to access youtube (newpipe, invidious etc) - https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1eT421r79x?t=1058.8

One thing which is missing in conversations about circumventing ads on youtube, is that such users are also depriving content creators of their income. For those who don't want to watch ads, feel free to subscribe to youtube premium to support creators(or directly support them).
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gitaarik 647 days ago
Why not better support them via Patreon or something similar? Then you can support them without giving YouTube a cut.
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antifarben 647 days ago
I don't think that YouTube has anything against creators not using YouTube that can be funded via Patreon.

I'm pretty sure are just against it if people are using the platform and apps that they're are developing and maintaining without them having any possibility of getting any revenue in return. It's so popular that people are uploading 500 hours of video every minute, so I assume that this platform scaling doesn't come for free and people who're working for YouTube to make this possible wants some money too.

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gitaarik 647 days ago
I think they have more than enough money ;-)

And then you might say "fairly earned"? I don't think so. But yeah everybody has their views on things.

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