Hot Take: Ads are cool.
Hot take here, but I don't really care about ads. People on the internet constantly complain that there are ads in everything; they whine about the 'unskippable' ads on YouTube. In my opinion, YouTube is the best free streaming service in the world, despite their biases. It's better than Rumble, it's better than Odysee, it's better than Vimeo, or any other alt-tech platform. YouTube stores and hosts petabytes of data, supports livestreams, has a growing short-form platform, and you get all of that for a one-minute ad in a video? Is it really that horrible that you have to use an ad block or some third-party client and whine on Reddit about how Google is so horrible? Why don't you run a UGC (User-Generated Content) streaming service and get back to me on how you expect to make money? Ads in streaming to reduce prices are, in my opinion, good. We paid money for cable/satellite TV and still got ads, and now we are whining that there are ads in streami...