About YouTube and ad-blockers:

YouTube is owned by Alphabet, aka Google's umbrella corporation. Google in turn was devoured by DoubleClick, the largest advertising company to come out of the 1990s web.

When you use Google, you are feeding the attention monster that is the advertising industry.

We should aim to criminalize behavioural advertising and break up the Google monopoly, not tolerate their shit and work around it by using adblockers.

@cstross
I have been paying for the ads free YouTube for a while.
It is exactly what I want.

I wonder if people are using ad-blockers on Spotify? I guess most just pay to avoid them.

(Unless you are worried about privacy, then you can't use any of these services)