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What is your suggestion for financing the YouTube infrastructure and development?
If blocking ads means they lose out, then i'm fine with them losing out
That's fine. It just reads to me sometimes as if people in the comment sections are angry at YouTube for trying to uphold a stream of revenue, when it's the only thing that makes the platform possible. Personally I think YouTube has been a huge boon, I've learned so much from people who post on the platform and I don't want to see it go away (which is not to say that it doesn't have huge issues). So I'm fine with paying in some manner, at least until a better alternative comes up. If you don't think it's worth it, great for you, go and do whatever you think brings value to your life. But I don't understand the vitriol or sense of entitlement to getting a costly service free of charge.
Google already owns so much server and bandwidth infrastructure the marginal cost is likely very low
That's conjecture, and so is my view, but I disagree. They've even developed specialized hardware just to deal with all the transcoding they have to do, specialized for YouTube. There's a lot of effort that goes into maintaining things that are unique to this particular service. But in the end, what matters is if they could make more money by spending their resources elsewhere.