People have given me shit about paying for YouTube Premium. They scoff at it. Imagine the cost for an entity without that sort of purchasing power. The cost would probably be a lot higher for resources.

People can already get out of the ad model on YouTube. There's literally an ad free option you can pay for right now. But few people do. I just don't buy the idea that it's economically viable for YouTube to drop the ad model today. Hell, a lot of people aren't even willing to deal with ads even though it pays for their use of the platform. They block them lol

People don't want ads, yet most of them clearly aren't willing to pay for the service. I'm not sure where the big Nostr solution is here. This is a cultural issue more than a technical one. YouTube would dump the ad model if it was actually better for business to do so. Is it really predatory if people are choosing it?