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If we all collectively did that (not happening), we'd remove the main funding for content hosting, which means we'd get more paywalls. That's not what I want at all. Information should be freely available, we just need to make options to avoid the advertising. For example, I pay for Nebula, because I find enough content there that I enjoy, and my understanding is that the creators get a larger chunk per watch vs YouTube. That works for me, but it probably doesn't work for the average person.
I would like to see pay-per-watch become mainstream. So I could, for example, load a balance into my browser and press a button to view content w/o ads by paying a small fee (like a couple pennies here and there). The browser would ensure that transaction isn't traceable to me (protects my privacy), and they'd pay the content creator on some schedule to reduce transaction fees. The cost to me is whatever the creator would make from ads, and I can choose which content to pay for or not. It would also make it really easy to add a tip if I found a particular piece of content particularly engaging.