When you block ads on YouTube, the ads are deleted. This has the problem of not giving creators money, forcing you to actually spend $10/mo or whatever the average Patreon subscription is. What if there was an option for an ad to play in the background while a black rectangle covers the screen while temporarily muting the browser tab? (Since the ad still plays in the background, the creator still gets money, allowing you to be a freeloader) edit: peertube has no ads
Patreon and similar services and if a creator doesn’t have one encourage them to do so, so that money goes directly to the creator and doesn’t go to YouTube / Google
There is also AdNauseam that hides ads and clicks on them in the background but then some money still goes to YouTube and I’m pretty sure Google banned them from the Google chrome Web store