Relevant part of YouTube TOS that'll come into effect on 2019-12-10:

YouTube may terminate your access, or your Google account’s access to all or part of the Service if YouTube believes, in its sole discretion, that provision of the Service to you is no longer commercially viable.

However, it's not clear whether "Service" is YouTube or whole Google account. As we've seen in Markiplier affair, violating YouTube TOS meant that people lost access to their whole Google account - including gmail and gdrive.

My opinion:

I’m probably a minority here because ads don’t bother me. I don’t mind native advertising (I prefer it to AdSense honestly), and I let the YouTube ads play out because it supports the video creators that spend their time making free videos for people to watch.

People on Reddit specifically seem to despise ads. They’ll literally do anything they can to not see an ad. Then they get pissy when websites sell their info (guess what? If you didn’t block ads that website is less likely to sell your data. The company I worked for never sold user data until adblockers became popular). Malware in ads on reputable sites is a total non-issue. AdSense has something like 600k “bad ads” of the billions, maybe trillions of ads they serve a year. (I should mention that it’s fair to block ads on sites that aren’t reputable or are sketchy).

Ads keep things free, and the more Adblock is used the more aggressive sites become to users and the more data they sell.

Tildes is obviously ad-free and doesn’t sell user data. It’s a noble idea but I don’t see it taking off without a large amount of users (most who will NEVER donate, I won’t be, sorry). I’m also using Tildes less and less because I still see the same Reddit-like bullshit that happens on larger threads.

Anyway, what is your opinion?

Side question: what do you think is the future on Internet monetization?