Comment by janalsncm
I didn’t mean to evade your questions, but my opinion is as follows:
Yes I want YouTube to be free, but not if that requires intrusive surveillance.
People who pay for YouTube aren’t opted out of surveillance as far as I can tell. So I reject the premise of your question, that people are choosing free because they don’t value privacy. They haven’t been given the choice in most cases.
On a tangential note, you previously asked if ads should be more expensive. It’s possible that ads should be less expensive, since they may be less effective than ad spend would suggest: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/does-advertising-actually-w...