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With uBlock origin you pay $0 and skip ads.

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I'm not unaware of this. It however doesn’t fit all my use cases and hence the price is still worth it.

With a get away driver you pay $0 and skip the check-out line.

Poor analogy. Since when is an adblocker a crime?

Since websites depended on ad revenue to deliver the content and services that visitors consume?

It's not a crime, and I use adblockers, but it's not hard to understand that using adblockers on websites which are ad-supported is a self-destructive cycle.

That’s on the level of “you wouldn’t steal a car” type of argument.

Great, now the creators who's content you enjoy don't get any money to sustain their efforts.

I think letting uBlock stay up as an extension is a brilliant move by Google. It means that the people that use it eventually won't have any content that they actually want to watch, because nobody can make money making it for them.

They do if you send them some money.

Sending them $5 via Gumroad or Patreon is worth hundreds or thousands of ad views, depending on the creator's RPM. YouTube ad payouts are pretty stingy.

No way most people send cash. Most people won't pay for a netflix subscription, there's no chance they're dropping 5$ for a youtube creator.

Watch any popular live stream on youtube and you'll see random people dropping $1-100 at any given time for their favorite creators. I don't really understand the motivation, but is a real phenomenon.

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