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you gladly feed them your viewing habits to increase their value to their shareholders though 🤷
you aren't hurting their bottom line by not watching ads. You're just making a tiny dent into a single line of thousands on some slides on the evp of youtube's quarterly presentation. No one else notices.
Your data and viewing habits and patterns and all of the device info you leak and broadcast? The wifi signals your phone is always seeing? Oh that bluetooth device that just rode past your apartment while your blocking ads on youtube? Definitely not being seen by them. Apps are spyware these days, and they are spying on everything
My main point is that if it wasn't a privacy destroying capitalist evil company and website, that it would provide enough possible value for me to want to pay. My data is one of the reasons it isn't, I was merely answering to the article and context here.