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So many corporate bootlickers here, damn.
I honestly don't really care if people adblock or not but I think people need to acknowledge that adblock is essentially piracy. That doesn't make it inherently bad or good but it has the same impacts as piracy at the end of the day. It's a useful tool to use when companies start to get unreasonable but especially in the case of YouTube it impacts the amount of money the people who make the content earn.
But piracy has no impact at all. Pirates never wanted to buy your stuff.
Honestly, there is plenty of stuff I'd pay for but I pirate if it's difficult to access.