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Can't wait until Google flips them on globally for all users 
I do not want my money to go to paying off publishers. I want my money going to support well funded and continuous development of a product that defeats their current business model. I hate being tracked and sold. I want the entire system to die.
that's wicked, pay for something, just to not pay someone else
Advertising is mental pollution. Opening your window to teams of people with PhDs in lying and manipulating you to just say whatever the hell they want.
No, it's about voting with you money against a whole way to do business. Long live FOSS, long live adblockers!
Then you should stop using YouTube.