Comments by "cosmosofinfinity" (@cosmosofinfinity) on "YouTube's adblock war is backfiring in the worst way possible 🤣" video.
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It's sort of like what Louis has said about building his business style of building a relationship of partnership, instead of an adversarial one. Once it is made clear you're an adversary, we don't have to care what you want, since you don't care what we want. And the arms race/endless cycle of retaliation begins. But if respect is paid, respect is given back. If Google respected its users, it would get respect back. But it is a company operating under an endless expansion profit motive. Look how Wikipedia sustains and is beloved. It is a non-profit, and it respects its users and never went back on its principles. But in capitalism, profit comes over principles, always, by necessity and legal obligation to the ravenous shareholder mob.
So, like with any other relationship, when YouTube crosses a red lines, it makes people reevaluate their relationship with YouTube, and realize it is one of animosity. And YouTube makes it that way. Not us. We're the ones who simply want to use and engage with their service that they created, in the hopes of getting a pleasant experience, but YouTube sabotages their own experience by also being the one who makes that hard for us by not respecting people's boundaries. And not respecting boundaries is how all wars begin.
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