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This is a terrible take. Creators get paid via sponsorships and patreon. Google does not deserve my eyeballs.

Creators also get paid by ads and by Premium subscriptions. A whole lot more than any other platform pays, and without gatekeeping to boot. As far as I know there are no other significant platforms except YouTube and Spotify that allows _anyone_ to try to make an income from their work without having to be vetted. I'd be happy to know of any other platforms.

Counter argument, no, THIS is a terrible take.

Hey man you watch all the ads you want but dont go around casting aspersions on the moral character of people who dont watch ads.

"How dare you Freeloaders not look at the ads in the newspaper?!?!? Dont you know Journalists get paid from those!?!?! Oh the mercy!?!?"

Its a free service. If its not a free service why are they offering it for free? I dont owe google anything and neither do you sir.

They aren't offering it for free. That's the entire point. It's offered ad-supported. You are so accustomed to theft you are incorrectly interpreting this.

You cannot steal something like youtube. Stealing would imply that you were taking it from somebody. Nobody loses anything when you pirate a movie. Nobody loses anything when you block ads. Taking a picture of the mona lisa doesnt take the mona lisa from anybody. Reading a free newspaper and not looking at the ads isnt stealing the newspaper. Listening to the radio and switching stations when ads come on isnt stealing the music. Watching TV and switching stations when ads come on isnt stealing the TV show.

You seem like you might be part of the population who are the kinds of people to get outraged when people fake drinking their verification cans.

What do you call sneaking into a movie theater or a magic show or other live performance? What do you call not paying for your ticket and still obtaining the value of the experience created?

I make videos, they cost me real money to make. When you steal views, you are costing me the money I should have been paid for your view to help cover those costs associated with entertaining you.

This isn't some moral puzzle, you are a thief.

See you make actually made a great point here! Take the movie theatre example. When a movie theatre shows a movie they dont let you in unless you buy a ticket. This is in contrast to Youtube where if you can connect to the address of the page the content will be streamed. If you want to charge per view of your videos then I suggest you find a different service to host them because that is just not how youtube works. Nothing is being stolen.

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