So the alternative is to manage a subscription for every single creator I watch? Currently I sub to Nebula and YT premium. For ~$20 a month. If I were to go through and sub to every creator I watch’s lowest patreon tier, we’d be talking about dozens of individual subs totaling probably more than double what I pay now.

I’m not arguing against ad blockers but seriously, what do you think is going to happen if everyone uses an ad blocker and doesn’t pay for a service? You get Google pushing Manifest V3 as fast as they can. You get the huge arms race with the biggest tech firms doing everything they can to eliminate any and all kinds of ad blocking.

It’s not about the amount of money you individually generate for a creator. It’s about the net effect of everyone running adblockers.

I get the vast majority of people don’t use ad blockers. But just wow does it feel like people dont spend more than three seconds thinking about anything.