Alright, so I watched the video so you guys don't have to. Here's a synopsis:

Youtube's ad blocking is going to backfire because:

• It caused people to stop using crappy ad blockers that didn't even work with youtube to switch to effective ones that do.
• Drawing attention to "good" browsers and ad blockers, increasing adoption -- including people that weren't using or aware of the existence of them in the first place
• Increased support of the people making/maintaining ad blockers. Spite driven increase in donations, subscriptions to paid ad blockers, bug reports, etc.
• Cites the Streisand effect.
• Analogy of how prohibition led to stronger drugs, stronger booze, etc. If you tell people they can't do something, they're more likely to do it and get better at doing it.
• Cites how Youtube's attempts to block ad blockers is breaking older embedded apps in smart TVs, chromecast, etc. Older or non-tech people are just more likely to stop using those rather than try to fix them -- and thus cut back on watching youtube.
• Believes Youtube's actions are an indication the internet's "free with ads" model is dying -- they're getting desperate to maintain profitability.

Sums up a lot of mental outlaw vids

You just described 99.7% of videos on the web.

Pretty much anyone can read about 4x faster than they can speak, and that's before all the fluff that shitty presenters add.

There is a website I discovered recently for doing text summaries of YouTube videos.

https://www.summarize.tech

This video was also posted on YouTube, so here you can see a summary:

https://www.summarize.tech/www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tBBQGkmn_0

triple parentheses

unironic use of the word cuck

conspiracy theory about Google being a fake company

Welp.

I went to odysee once and saw the Babylon Bee advertised front page. Told me all I needed to know about the platform.

So many alternatives get flooded with these crazy people

What the hell indeed.

I could deal with the 2 ads at the beginning of the video and the end but when they added ad interruptions in the middle of 5 minute videos and had ads covering the comments on every video. Yeah, screw off YouTube.

I just sideloaded uYou and it doesn’t even know what ads are so it never loads them. I would never had bothered circumventing the ads if they were reasonable, but they aren’t. They want everyone on premium and obviously have disdain for non-premium users. Have no zero respect for that kind of business.

His argument is:

1. A lot of people were using poor adblockers.
2. Youtube can block the bad ones but struggles with the good ones.
3. People switch to the better adblockers (some of which require a subscription)

He'll often take a two minute point and then extend it by 10 minutes.

He's also one of those people who acts like everyone who doesn't use Linux is a sheep. Linux is fundamentally not ready for widespread desktop use. The only way I see that changing is if a corporation decides to make their own distro and find a way to monetize it. It would also need to be pre-installed.

You're right: uBo doesn't accept donations out of integrity but they propose people donate to the list maintainers on which it depends instead.