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By your reasoning, YouTube (like Costco) should ask the actual freeloaders to stop instead of imposing ads on every Costco member in a misguided quest to profit on every single free sample.

I’m impressed you saw what should really happen at Costco, but disappointed you could not extrapolate that thinking to the YouTube case.

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That analogy doesn’t make any sense - the free samples are the ads! – but in both cases there’s a simple principle: your use of someone else’s property happens on their terms. If you don’t like their business, go somewhere else.

No! They want me to look at their videos because they need me to look at their ads. I choose the former, not the latter. There’s various way they could enforce their rules but they won’t do it because they want the maximum people they can get. I’m not asking for free content, they are pushing it to me. I just take the content and leave the ads out.

That’s a position, sure, but don’t complain when they block you.

I won't. Lots of news sites do and I just go back.

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