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I don't think Youtube is a good example for a company loosing out on money, because
1. Youtube is a service provided by Google, who has tons of cash
2. Youtube has gotten to big to simply vanish and letting it stay creates more profit (and popularity) than removing it
By providing paid subscriptions they are not compensating for adblock users, they are closing a hole in the internet market, a way to gain money which was there, but went ignored for many years.
The people who lose out on money are the ones who upload and monetarize content on Youtube, that's true. It's just that contenters with a small amount of viewers don't get much money anyways.
Those with a lot of viewers, though, there's a chance that their community starts to become some kind of fanatics who treat Adblock users as some kind of evil monsters that have to be removed from the surface of earth.
Where I was going with that: If Youtube dies, it's not because of Adblock users; there will always be those who don't use it.
I use Adblock, because the internet is a hugh garbage dump. There's just too much stuff transferred through http/s that you don't want and that just eats up your bandwidth. As someone whose internet connection is really bad and who has been using a defect router, who likes to die while loading the PC main page, for a couple of months now (thanks ISP for prioritizing new customers over those that have been customers for a couple of years now!), I'd like that little bandwidth to be used to load a little bit more of a video, rather than the ad, which after the router rebooting and the page reloading, gets reloaded too. That way I can finish a 20min in (hopefully) under 2 hours (true story). But even with a working router I'd use Adblock.
1. Youtube is a service provided by Google, who has tons of cash
2. Youtube has gotten to big to simply vanish and letting it stay creates more profit (and popularity) than removing it
By providing paid subscriptions they are not compensating for adblock users, they are closing a hole in the internet market, a way to gain money which was there, but went ignored for many years.
The people who lose out on money are the ones who upload and monetarize content on Youtube, that's true. It's just that contenters with a small amount of viewers don't get much money anyways.
Those with a lot of viewers, though, there's a chance that their community starts to become some kind of fanatics who treat Adblock users as some kind of evil monsters that have to be removed from the surface of earth.
Where I was going with that: If Youtube dies, it's not because of Adblock users; there will always be those who don't use it.
I use Adblock, because the internet is a hugh garbage dump. There's just too much stuff transferred through http/s that you don't want and that just eats up your bandwidth. As someone whose internet connection is really bad and who has been using a defect router, who likes to die while loading the PC main page, for a couple of months now (thanks ISP for prioritizing new customers over those that have been customers for a couple of years now!), I'd like that little bandwidth to be used to load a little bit more of a video, rather than the ad, which after the router rebooting and the page reloading, gets reloaded too. That way I can finish a 20min in (hopefully) under 2 hours (true story). But even with a working router I'd use Adblock.
