Nah. I’m old enough that i don’t care about playing the “catch the mouse” game with all the various ways to borderline-legally pay less (and maybe get your account flagged and suspended - good luck appealing to that).

I’ll just block ads, alphabet is doing fine anyway.

In the same line of thinking, I just pay what they are asking in my region. It's very good value for money anyways.

> I’ll just block ads, alphabet is doing fine anyway.

But as the OP says…the problem is that this is not feasible on mobile or TVs.

I self host one of those proxy services that plays the videos skipping the ads on my phone. I access it in my lan and in my vpn.

On my tv… i purposedly picked a tv without any form of smart feature, and have a small nuc to use the aforementioned proxy.

You're not just paying $2 or 5$. You're paying by the fact that you have to "login" to remove those ads with that measly $2.

You can use a separate Google account with a separate email address for that. Using Apple Pay or similar, your payment also remains anonymous. And if you don’t care about history etc., you can switch to a new account every year or so.

They’ve been trying to stop this recently FYI.

Does anyone know if this changes how much your view is worth to creators?