I got the "please disable adblocker notice" more than three times but didn't get banned, but I disabled adblocker and added an exception for youtube in ublock origin just in case. Fortunately I don't watch much Youtube (maybe put on a podcast in the background once a week) so this doesn't affect me that much.
I know that people are upset with rising Netflix prices (even after everyone pulled their shows from Netflixed and locked them behind their own subscription services), and now Youtube pressuring people to buy another subscription, but I think it's important to take a step back and realize that free was a historical anomaly. Back in the days of radio dramas and TV shows broadcast over the radio waves that anyone could tune into, the companies made a profit because people had few alternatives, so they were getting a lot of people tuning in whose attention could be sold to advertisers. Nowadays people have too many options to concentrate everyone's attention enough to turn a profit by selling a big audience's attention to advertisers alone (not to mention that the great prosperity in the wake of WW2 has been used up). People are too balkanized in niches and the content creators for these niches need to be supported more directly. I think we're going to be seeing a switch to a neopatronage model.
Netflix is still crap, though.
