Firefox with uBlock Origin has blocked YouTube ads just fine on Android for years, and Google kept paying. uBlock Origin doesn't actually get installed by default on Firefox Mobile, but I'd wager that it effectively does.
replyA weird line to draw since Google still owns the general ad web space.
replyIt doesn’t cost cost google money to show that content. (It does cost someone else who google would be giving a cut of the ad revenue)
replyYouTube videos actually have some real world disk space, bandwidth, etc costs just to show so if google doesn’t get to show an ad they lose money instead of an opportunity to make money.
AI inference for people's queries is not free.
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