Quote: "The creator doesn't really have a choice to not have ads if they are trying to make a living producing this content. "
Especially because you need a lot of views to come close to making any reasonable money from it - one of the most recent big things on YouTube is a series called 'Becoming YouTube' by a bloke named Ben Cook; it's the result of two years solid work and as of right now he gets about 200,000 views per video. Apparently he has barely made back the money he spent on the equipment he used, and certainly could have made far more in an everyday job.
Quote: "Its true about the skip ad option, but the reason that's there is to put the control over the sort of ads you want to watch in your hands. Its there to force the advertisers to create more engaging advertisements and content creators to give their users more relevant adverts (Although I'm not sure how much control they have over it)."
You can choose the type of adverts that appear (banner, pre-roll etc) but not the actual content of the advert.
Quote: "As I said in my previous post, at the end of the day its your choice, I just wanted to share my personal opinion on the matter. I don't think any less of people ad blocking, I just don't condone people saying things like this:
"I think it's pretty funny that you don't use an ad-blocker."
When the people losing out at the end of the day are the people who work hard to produce the content we like so much!"
Exactly this - YouTube to be honest can cry as much as they like about AdBlock, they're doing fine. It's the content creators that really miss out because, as of right now, there's no other way to generate income from YouTube itself. (Merch is another situation entirely, but seeing as some people consider it selling out when a Tuber starts selling T-Shirts or whatever it's certainly not perfect either)
Quote: "You can't sit there crying about injustice, you have to work with the reality of the situation. And as Thraxas said, this is not equatable to stealing since they are no worse off since you watched the video; a view is not an item in a shop."
Which, to be honest, is another piracy argument. The transfer of digital goods can never be equated to stealing because the product is ephemeral - but that doesn't mean it has no value, simply because it isn't physical. If someone has created something and wants payment for it, that is their choice, and not yours to decide you don't wish to pay.
Quote: "Its a shame it had to end in this bitterness, it wasn't my goal to upset or offend anyone."
Agreed. Honestly I don't judge anyone that much for using AdBlock, I'm aware that it's pretty widespread and I'm not that bothered, but it's the way people scorn those who don't use it which irritates me, as it seems they don't know how much it hurts creators. But no bad feeling meant
