NOTE: YouTube is NOT my job and it'll never be. I'm currently a college student and I use ad revenue just to buy some of the games and such. Just had to post this before somebody is going to say "get a job" and such.
So, Google came out with a paid service, YouTube Red, which pretty much will let you watch the videos without having to watch ads while content creators (like me) still get revenue.
So, my point is, if Google is trying to fight Adblock with this like what I've heard, they're totally doing it in the WRONG way. Literally nobody is going to pay for that.
If they REALLY wanted to do something right, they could have just blocked the site to people who had the extension installed and let them load again the page with the extension disabled. Or put ads which play as videos and don't get blocked. That's the way they should have done it.
Let me say, blocking ads of content creators on YouTube, Twitch and other sites is much more wrong than piracy. It's just causing damage over free content, and you wouldn't even have the valid excuse you don't have money. It's just greediness over wasting 5 seconds of a life.
Then again, I'm not against blockers being used with spam ads or people who redirect you to 50 linkbucks loops and load your page with 9000 popups. There should be something called spam blocker, not ad blocker. I was forced to do it on a forum with that kind of spam which would even freeze my browser sometimes.
So, with that said, I'm not saying the single users are causing damage, but the owner of Adblock clearly is.
And to sites, make ads skippable after 5 seconds and put them in an enough low quality people with bad internet can view them. Then make them unblockable, that's the way to do it.
