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Gotta add to your message under the video, partly because I like this creator and other small creators like him:
I completely understand someone not wanting to get blasted by ads and tracking from YouTube—however if you’re using one of these YouTube front ends, please consider sponsoring the creators you’re watching on patreon or something if you’re able to. If everyone dodged the ads and didn’t also sponsor the creator in some way, they’re eventually just gonna stop being able to make content because the necessary income to justify the work is simply not going to be there.
I hate ads as much as the next guy, but it’s important to remember it’s a big part of how these people can afford to make the videos we enjoy. So particularly with smaller creators, happily dodge the ads, but make sure they’re still getting something for their work.
I don’t enjoy them, I think they’re time vampires dragging society into oblivion. I’m glad to deprive any and all content farms of income and that’s why I do it.
…so you hate-watch creators you don’t enjoy on alternative YouTube front ends explicitly in order to not give them ad revenue Vs just not watching them?
Aren’t you only wasting your own time?
No, I don’t watch YouTube at all.