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  • YouTube is intensifying efforts to combat adblockers, including blocking video playback and warning users of potential account suspension.
  • Increased ads on YouTube have driven many users to adblockers, hurting both YouTube’s ad revenue and content creators reliant on ad-based income.
  • Despite these measures, many users are leaving YouTube or finding workarounds, leading creators to seek alternative revenue streams off-platform.
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[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Collapse what exactly? It would actually reduce strain on their servers and provide a better experience for paying users. Obviously they won't do it because there's a ton of users who watch ads (think of the average guy who plays YouTube on their phone or TV, with zero adblocking).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Just the revenue of paid subscribers will not pay the bills of any content creator that actually has employees or spends money creating content.

They won't do it because all of their content would have no alternative but to disappear.