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In what way is it a dodge? It is a fact that youtube is a private platform, created by private individuals using private capital. That a bunch of people decided to hang out on it doesn't mean it becomes public property, some kind of digital squatter's rights, like if enough people hang out on my lawn it becomes a park.
To be clear, "I don't think youtube should exist" is a fine position philosophically, and not even really one I want to argue against. I use youtube pretty rarely, and the recommended videos look existentially horrifying, we should abolish youtube and twitter and reddit and whatever else is just a-ok with me. But the position being forwarded here: "Youtube should exist without ads and also I'm never going to pay for a subscription" is the kind of retard socialism that I associate much more with Bobos whose parents cut them off than with Mottizens, and I'm disappointed to find it here.
"American Higher Education as we know it should be abolished" is a strong philosophical argument, "College should be exactly the way it is now, but someone else should pay for it" is retarded. It's shoplifter ethics. Right down to the way that both sets of retard socialists use random ideological and ethical slights ("It's a big corporation!" "They discriminated against my ideology!") to justify it.
Youtube videos should exist without ads. Youtube itself existing is not part of this.
Personally, I just wish they would let me pick ad categories. I would never bitch about ads again if they just let me pick ads that were A) pleasant and B) relevant to me. I don't have chrohn's disease or eczema, I'm not buying tampons, and I hate that asshole in the state farm ads (the one race flip in casting that ever truly offended me).
You can do this to some extent through "My Ad Center" in your Google account.
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