The users are not the customers. Youtube (and others) collects and generates a ton of data from their users and sell ad space to their real customers, advertisers.
I wouldn’t even mind some clearly distinguishable banner ads here and there, but the last time i tried watching a video without adblocker i stopped after the third ad about two minutes in. This is just pure greed of another corporation milking the tiddies of capitalism.
Why?
The users are not the customers. Youtube (and others) collects and generates a ton of data from their users and sell ad space to their real customers, advertisers.
I wouldn’t even mind some clearly distinguishable banner ads here and there, but the last time i tried watching a video without adblocker i stopped after the third ad about two minutes in. This is just pure greed of another corporation milking the tiddies of capitalism.