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I fully agree. For me this is one of the main advantages of game streaming and why I think is the future. It is a way to prevent cheating and bad actors that does not require me giving kernel access to game developers. Also protects me from people learning my own IP via poor chat or multiplayer implementations.

Just ask Google, how much money do ad blockers steal from content creators, lots of people reporting how their sites now produce way less money than they used to.

Well, I assume creators think that Google brings value or they would simply host their videos in a CDN themselves, at least when they already have an audience. I think YouTube provides creators a reach that others can't. Probably because of the hundreds of video clients they support or the quality of the stream even in the most hostile network conditions.

Try it, is free to try. The experience is quite great without ads but do not trust me or others, try for yourself if you watch YouTube and want to support creators but hate the ads.

Well, the creators of the content you watch do have to eat too. They are the ones that make most of the money from those ads, and the ones that hurt most if you do not support them.

I have the same experience. I watch lots of educational YouTube content and share my premium subscription with my wife and kids. I could never go back to ad-based YouTube.

Many people here suggests other services, including services you can pay for to bash Google. The reality is that Google offered Google Contributor and now offers YouTube premium but most people prefer free content with ads. And that is fine. I find very surprising the HN folks complaining about the tech companies making ads-based money for their services when they are not willing to pay for the ad-free version. It is disappointing that they feel using ad blockers is the reasonable thing to do. $9/month yearly subscription) for ad-free YouTube is an absolutely fair price IMHO. Ad blockers are piracy and kill jobs, same as downloading movies or books.

<300 reviews out of 50+ million downloads. Not sure the big deal, people can just use other launchers and the ads are relevant. Chromecast with GTV has had this for a while and people like it because they are relevant.

Do you know if anyone was ever able to decrypt the SMP source code mentioned as a challenge in the article?