That is true up to a certain point beyond which the annoyance of the ads in combination with the service provider's aggressive moves to make them unavoidable outweighs the benefits of the service. If Youtube can not be visited without being subjected to aggressive and obnoxious advertising then Youtube will not be visited. There are plenty of alternatives out there after all, Youtube does not have a monopoly on video distribution.
Source: my own experience. I never use Youtube directly. I use Peertube to distribute whatever video content I publish - not much but there is some - and use a proxy of some sorts whenever I have to get something from Youtube. When the proxy stops working - which happens every now and then since they are essentially web scrapers - I search elsewhere using my own SearxNG instance. If I do not find the video elsewhere I usually just wait for the proxy to start working again. Only in exceptional circumstances will I go to the Youtube site directly and in those cases only in a 'private' browser window/tab. I do not remember the last time I had to do this so it is not a regular occurrence but what I do remember for the few times I visited that site is just how slow and bloated it is compared to my normal way of using it.
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That is true up to a certain point beyond which the annoyance of the ads in combination with the service provider's aggressive moves to make them unavoidable outweighs the benefits of the service. If Youtube can not be visited without being subjected to aggressive and obnoxious advertising then Youtube will not be visited. There are plenty of alternatives out there after all, Youtube does not have a monopoly on video distribution.
Source: my own experience. I never use Youtube directly. I use Peertube to distribute whatever video content I publish - not much but there is some - and use a proxy of some sorts whenever I have to get something from Youtube. When the proxy stops working - which happens every now and then since they are essentially web scrapers - I search elsewhere using my own SearxNG instance. If I do not find the video elsewhere I usually just wait for the proxy to start working again. Only in exceptional circumstances will I go to the Youtube site directly and in those cases only in a 'private' browser window/tab. I do not remember the last time I had to do this so it is not a regular occurrence but what I do remember for the few times I visited that site is just how slow and bloated it is compared to my normal way of using it.