If you love a creator buy their merch, sub their patreon, mail them a coupon for a free sandwich, but for fuck's sake DON'T buy youtube premium to try and support them.
I lack the money to buy something from every creator I watch (literally over 100 channels subbed to), and premium genuinely does pay them more than ads. Sure, like half is going to google, but it's definitely the easier way to support the creators that does actually pay them.
Yes, but if I was only doing it for no ads, I'd rather just use ad block. Instead, I'm doing to to support the creators I watch in the laziest way possible, because I'm letting Google do all the work to spread the money out.
The only mistake Billy made is giving anything to AdBlock Plus, the people who have sided WITH the ads, instead of uBlock Origin, the true MVPs of the ad blocking world. I guess uBlock doesn't accept donations unfortunately, but still, ABP is shady and I would not support them.
I did a quick search and they don't make it easy. Peter Lowe's ad and tracking server blocklist is the only one I found. EasyList doesn't seem to have a donation link, nor Dan Pollock at someonewhocares.org. Also worth noting that UBO doesn't take donations. You could always subscribe to AdGuard, but that's mixed.
"Chris AlJoudi [current owner of uBlock] is under fire on Reddit due to several actions in recent past:
In a Wikipedia edit for uBlock, Chris removed all credits to Raymond [Hill, original author and owner of uBlock Origin] and added his name without any mention of the original author’s contribution.
Chris pledged a donation with overblown details on expenses like $25 per week for web hosting.
The activities of Chris since he took over the project are more business and advertisement oriented than development driven."
So I would recommend that you go with uBlock Origin and not uBlock. I hope this helps!
gorhill [Raymond Hill] got tired of dozens of "my facebook isnt working plz help" issues.
he handed the repository to chrismatic [Chris Aljioudi] while maintaining control of the extension in the Chrome webstore (by forking chrismatic's version back to himself).
chrismatic promptly added donate buttons and a "made with love by Chris" note.
gorhill took exception to this and asked chrismatic to change the name so people didn't confuse uBlock (the original, now called uBlock Origin) and uBlock (chrismatic's version).
Google took down gorhill's extension. Apparently this was because of the naming issue (since technically chrismatic has control of the repo).
gorhill renamed and rebranded his version of ublock to uBlock Origin.
I just love how Raymond thinks about donations. "Money is not my motivation." And forwards to the people that contribute the most by provoding filter lists for everyone!
