Comment by righthand

> I don't care about blogspam, but a lot of YouTube content clearly costs money to make.

By the time the video is uploaded to Youtube, for the creator is a sunk cost. What most of your Youtube ad view generated money goes to is the hosting on Google’s end, not the creator. It’s a false belief that 99% of Youtube creators will go extinct if you use an ad blocker, because it’s a post pay system.

This is only really true for successful channels not most Youtube content. The ad blocker hurts Google more than YT creators.