and warning users of potential account suspension.

What account?

Increased ads on YouTube have driven many users to adblockers, hurting both YouTube’s ad revenue and content creators

What always got me about accounts like Mr. Beast is how they never made the jump to a direct subscription service for their content. Some of the more popular Patreon accounts rarely if ever bubble up to the top of the YouTube algorithm. Yet they are clearly popular enough to bring in millions as independent artists. Meanwhile, the folks that dominate the YouTube charts are inevitably the ones that the algorithm force-feeds you in every "Recommended" feed.

It's almost as though YouTube needs quality content providers more than the quality providers need the ads. Almost as though the real beneficiaries of the YouTube ad-supported model are generating endless largely unappealing filler content.

I used to just watch YouTube at default, taking the ads as they felt like.

Now, no thanks. If I have to watch as many ads for as long as they mandate, I'll just watch other things.

I find the whole thing so ugly even as a youtube plus subscriber. How much possibly you could gain here? isn't youtube already profitable and being run by one of the world's richest corporations? just let people watch and educate themselves and whatnot.

There's a large war going on behind my uBlock plugin.

Sadly they killed Piped, and a lot Discord Bots in the Process...

They successfully broke almost every Piped instance.

There's no winning a perpetual game of whack-a-mole, especially when having no moles (=viewers) left also means that you lose.

Meanwhile Odysee goes ads free...