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Culture War Roundup for the week of October 24, 2022

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Ads are how the Youtubers I like to watch make their money. They're already giving me the content for free, least I can do is deal with ads.

Which is the moral gloss I put on top of the fact that I dislike fiddling with things so much that I can't be bothered to spend five minutes to figure out what adblockers are legit and set them up.

There are always going to be a certain % who watch ads, YouTube creators are making plenty of $ anyway .Not just Google ads but also sponsorships such as in-video ads

But that means you're not just wasting your time watching ads, you're forced to listen to someone fake enthusiasm about RAID: SHADOW LEGENDS in a way that dangerously blends ads and content.

Just give the poor fucks some pocket change in some way that Google or twitch can't steal half of it.

You're not forced to listen to RAID: SHADOW LEGENDS enthusiasm though: You can just skip it by forwarding the video.

Donating or subbing to YouTuber's Patreons/etc. is probably giving them more money than they make from you having ads on, TBH.

Yeah but then I have to pay them the money. My money grubbing, skinflint heart just won't allow that.

And that will not make the ads go away anyway.

But you're already paying with your time and at a pretty abysmal rate too. You waste a lot of time to give them a pittance

Spoken quite sensibly by someone who clearly doesn't have what it takes to be a world class miser! Take John Elwes for instance: now there was a miser! A member of Parliament and extremely wealthy, he would go to bed at sundown each day so he wouldn't waste money on candles. He wore ragged clothes everywhere, and was noted for regularly eating spoiled food rather than throwing it out. He would walk in the rain rather than take a coach, and often sat around in wet clothes rather than waste coal or wood starting a fire. Now there was a miser! Skinflints like me can only aspire to be that pointlessly frugal.

Even if I wasn't a so tight with my money, it would be quite a task to donate to every YouTuber I watch. And where does YouTube get it's cut? I feel like YouTube presents me with an excellent deal: it provides free entertainment in effectively unlimited quantities, and I watch ads. Everybody wins. Putting on an ad-blocker and then using YouTube anyway seems like an act of anti-social defection.

I think even subbing for just a month is still more than your ad view.