Every single piece of apologism here casually pushes the idea that YouTube isn’t profitable and their poor staff are starving.

In 2020, YouTube gleefully declared they were generating $5 billion in ad revenue every 3 months.

Even after their bandwidth, storage and incredibly well paid engineers, there’s no way they’re burning that much money on expenses. That’s a billion dollars – 1000 million – per data center, per quarter. Enough to buy half of the CPUs leaving Intel’s factories

They’re not attacking ad blockers because they’re struggling to make ends meet as they hack away in their garage.

They’re doing it because there is no amount of money that can quench the greed of their shareholders.

And there’s you, grovelling at their feet.