This is not double dipping, because the value of your data is factored into the subscription cost.

Personally, I don’t care that much if I watch YouTube videos about Game of Throne and then see ads for HBO House of the Dragon in Google search. But that’s me. I don’t have this overinflated concept of how precious my YT watchlist is to me.

An old coworker of mine started a company that was an ad network that paid YOU for your data every month, drawing from the ad revenue they got from using your data.

The fact is that your data is not worth very much at all on the open market. With some exceptions I think all the “BUT MY DATA!” is disingenuous pearl-clutching. Because everyone ITT has a credit card in their wallet right now, and that company has sold their personal information and purchasing habits thousands of times over and they’ve never cared.

But suddenly they have to sit through a YT ad because their and blocker got killed, and now people suddenly care about their data.

This entire issue is so overinflated with entitled consumers who lose their minds when they have to wait 15 seconds to get the thing they want for free. People need to take a step back from their devices IMO.