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Sorry, I just don't see a big problem with it. What companies have gone out of business because of this? Have you got any statistics to share?


I haven't talk about business that went out of business because of that. If you remove their only revenue... how can they stay in business without creating paid content? Reddit is a good example, they now have subreddit restricted to people with gold. Multiple news website switched to paywall. Surely they haven't gone out of business, they changed for an internet where you not only have to pay for access but also for content. I'm not saying it's bad to have to pay for content, content creator also need to get paid, I'm saying it's an restriction that's against what I would call an healthy internet.

An healthy internet would be one that have both, sadly ad block doesn't allow that, it force them to ask for money even though they don't wan't to or it doesn't make sense for them to. If there was a business in selling that information or service, then someone would do it, why don't you?

I would really love to see ads provider offer a way to pay to get no ads. You see 1000 ads a month which cost usually $5 cpm? Then you pay 5$ a month and you get no ads. I would gladly pay for that on Youtube, in fact I would probably pay more than what's they get from ads because of the quality of content.




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