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SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

I don't have a YouTube account. I never agreed to anything. I'm not subject to YouTube's terms of service.

The terms apply to anyone watching videos. You tacitly agree to them by choosing to watch something, whether you actually read them or not.

Saying that, though, you're never actually going to get in legal trouble for violating them, simply because of the extensive precedent of EULAs and ToSs not holding up in court because it's such common knowledge that nobody reads them (and in Youtube's case, you actually have to work to even find it) and there's no explicit agreement to the terms required before accessing the service. It does, however, mean that Youtube is completely within their rights to block adblock users from watching videos. Per their terms of service, they make no commitment to provide videos to people who block ads, and that means they can cut you off if they want.

You aren't "subject" to the ToS in a sense that you can be positively punished for it (that is, punished by doing something to you), but you can absolutely be negatively punished as far as Youtube's service delivery has the power to (which pretty much just extends to "no videos for you"). The only people that are actually entitled to watch Youtube with no ads are Youtube Premium subscribers. The rest of us just do it anyway because advertisers have made the Internet browsing experience intolerably miserable without ad blocking. They have killed my capacity to care about any potential wrong I'm committing by blocking ads.