You haven’t worked in any customer support position, and it shows. The amount of slurs hurled at them is far greater than anything found in a few github comments.

Non-personalized ads pay a fraction of the money targeted ads can get you.

Non intrusive ads are pretty much just amal banner ads on the side, they pay near to nothing.

Youtube barely makes any money as is, if you introduce even one of these changes they are far into the red again.

Now if we also remove any tracking, then Google has no reason at all to keep it going and will just shut it down.

I despise Google too, I avoid them like the plague, my phone is deggogled and all my apps come from third party storefronts. But YouTube simply is not a profitable business without personalised ads and tracking.

There will just be another popup and everything is fine. Ads are youtube business model, they can ask you to deactivate adblock, pay up or leave the site like a lot of news sites do. Running anti-adblockers is entirely within the law if you get informed about it on the site.

The company anonymises your data and sells it to get the most value out of it.

The state on the other hand will eventually use it to spy on you and controll you if necessary.

One would think that that’s the case, but youtube will happily show you ads on videos they themselves deemed not advertiser friendly. The creator simply doesn’t receive any money.

The only app revanced has is the “revanced manager”, which requires you to manually download a youtube apk and then patch it yourself. Any finished revanced youtube client you find online is done by a third party and is very risky to use.