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this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2026
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And that's actually a good thing. If 90% of users used ad blockers on youtube, their profit model wouldn't work and they'd stat locking more behind a subscription or they'd double down on cracking adblockers. We can enjoy an ad blocked youtube experience because the majority of users don't.
Nah youtube will never stop being free no matter how many are ad blocking. Content creators will all leave because they can't pay the bills with 3,000 views a day. They'd loose billions of active users and Alphabet's shareholders will shit their pants.
Youtube doesn't actually loose anything from ad blocking. It's advertisers who lose out and it's easier for youtube to scam them than us. If the advertising money dries up Youtube will simply go back to operating in the red just like it did for most of it's existence.
Revenue, debt, profit, products, customers, etc. Not of that shit means anything anymore because the billionaires have decided to let the world burn. The market today is nothing but gambling, theft, insider trading, grift and speculation and they're going to do that for as long as they can before the party ends.
Lose, not loose. Loose uses a soft S, and means uncoupled, held in a less firm grip.
Bruh, it's not even hard to tell that it was a typo. Nobody asked for dictionary.com.
content creators mostly use patreon, brand deals and promotions, they know AD revenue is in the drain or they selling thier own products on thier channel.
On the other hand, If everyone would use adblockers, maybe content creator market would evolve into viewers supporting their favorite creators directly, or youtube having a subscription model that is much better than a current one in a way of user experience and creator support.
i tried to "unblock" my ads for some channel owners, nope instant bombard with tons of ads.
Trust me, there's no way people are going to fund creators that much.
Patreon would like a word.
If Patreon was enough, youtubers wouldn't enable midroll ads
https://www.minmaxedrpg.com/
Literally a bunch of martial arts YouTubers that keep getting asked by fans if they would play D&D together, so they started a patreon/gofundme and got back almost 500% of their funding goal in only 2 days.
People absolutely would/will fund the creators they care about.
I'll add a few from my own experience.
Few years back I found Civvie11 on youtube. He just had released the first Pro Blood video and I liked it so much, I opened my patreon account and subbed to him. At that time he had around $500 a month from patrons. I think not even a year has passed, when I checked for patron content, he had $3000 a month going only from patrons. For a small channel like his, that is quite a sum of money to receive. Today he has 485k subs and $4300 a month off patrons. Not bad imo for a not so popular gaming channel.
Another nice example: decino is pulling $1000 a month with a tiny 200k sub YT channel pretty much only about Doom gameplay.
For larger channels with multiple millions of subs and a patreon or some other crowdfunding sources putting ads into their videos they are pulling much more. Not to mention paid ads in their vids.
Also, twitch proves that people are willing to spend 5 bucks a month for their favorite content creator. This is totally possible to run youtube clone funded by viewers.
i think people are unaware that google takes most of the ad revenue from them, thats why they use PATREON as a source.