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> Your content creators were always going to increase monetization strategies, whether you gave them the nod or not. That's the beauty of capitalism hard at work.

And he can choose which content creators he watches based on how obtrusive their monetization strategies are, that is also very much part of capitalism.



I'd argue choosing to watch for free content that cost money to produce is the opposite of capitalism.


I wasn't arguing in favor of SponsorBlock, I was stating that you have to option to not watch the content at all if the sponsorship is so annoying you'd consider installing something like SponsorBlock.




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