Then we'll community mark key p-hashes to black-rectangle it, leaving them holding the encoding costs bag. Then they will try to double down and e.g. use gen-ai to create fully dynamic unique ads, then we'll use ML to detect these ads. Not watching ads doesn't go away in the foreseeable future, but ads do.
The more people try it, the closer we are to the critical mass of realization that their ads are just bs, and there's no going back. They could stop bs-ing people a while ago and live forever, but they chose death by their own hands - the more annoying they are, the more "product" they lose to ad blocking, the less money they generate, the less they can do about it. They are already choking hard, it's apparent from convulsions like subj, mv3, anti-block attempts, etc.
If they still send the ads, and some number of people just black window them for the duration...I'm not really sure if Google will mind! They'll call it a view and still sell the ad. Depends if it sees to impact advertisers ROI I suppose...
The day it becomes impossible (or too difficult) to not watch ads, youtube will start to die. And it will be fast. There is no reason to not use bittorrent for videos and music, it is just that using youtube with ad block is a little bit more convenient.
But their recommendation algorithm is so terrible that I'm wondering about stopping using by myself. Not worth it.
