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Well it is an argument that has a fair bit of merit. How exactly do you expect YouTube or the creators to pay their bills? Don't feel like watching ads? You can subscribe to YouTube premium if you dislike ads so much.


Paying to remove ads creates an incentive to make ads more annoying, which punishes people who can't afford to pay.

I donate to a few creators. As for YouTube, Google can close it down for all I care, we'll figure it out. We'd probably better off, in fact.


Yeah I subscribe to YouTube Premium for this reason. I'd also subscribe to "AdWords Premium" or whatever to support general content sites if it was an option.


There's something like that: https://contributor.google.com/v/beta


I subscribe on their Patreon or make direct donations personally.


Exactly it helps creators generate more content




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