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points by weird-eye-issue 2 days ago | 0 comments
Complaining about ads is generally discouraged here because it doesn't add anything. Buy YouTube Premium if you don't want to see ads, it's pretty simple.

This is a very high quality documentary and it's not like running YouTube is free either so exactly what are you expecting?

[–] _ink_ 1 day ago
There are plenty of comments complaining about paywalls, I never saw a comment like yours below one. But it's the same thing. Buy ft, nyt, bloomberg, youtube, whatever and spend $500 month to read a single article or watch a single video per month on that specific site. It's ridiculous and broken and it's ok to complain about it.
[–] weird-eye-issue 1 day ago
It's part of the guidelines and I've seen it mentioned plenty

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you really just watch a single video on YouTube per month then you can just deal with the ads or use an ad blocker. You seem to live in la la land