Problem: YouTube is owned by Google, who are ad scum. Paying for YouTube gives Google more resources to direct toward producing their primary product, advertisements.
This entire situation happened because people were unwilling to pay for content. Your plan for this is… to not pay for content.
This seems akin to the, “why do you make me hurt you” defense.
If Eve attempts to derive revenue from manipulating Alice into spending her money unwisely, thereby deriving less benefit from it than she could otherwise, it is bad for Eve to succeed, and it is good for Eve to fail and starve in the street.
Advertisers deserve to be given long prison sentences. I don’t want to do that, because it would violate their freedom of speech. However, they do deserve it.
“Content” that cannot survive without advertising doesn’t deserve to exist.
Remember that time when Google took over the government and forced everyone to connect to websites that had advertising at gunpoint?
Well you probably don’t because we’re not in that timeline. As for myself, I still haven’t forgiven GDN, but fortunately it doesn’t exist yet, and it may never exist.
Look I’m not gonna wring you out for using an ad blocker just because you don’t like ads, but don’t style yourself as a morally superior revolutionary over it. You aren’t. This “content that’s supported by ads doesn’t deserve to exist” thing is ridiculous posturing, and on some level you know it.
Internet advertisements are a form of microtransaction payment that exists due to coordination problems, partially because the value of one read of a webpage is both low and unknown before reading it. A proper alternative system would be a form of widely-accepted digital currency that made it cheap and easy to send very small amounts of money, perhaps backed by the State if you’re into that sort of thing.
Suggesting that paying money, which is a direct and very expensive signal about not wanting advertisements, is unacceptable, is basically the exact opposite of solving the problem.