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(shrug) don't care if it affects views, never should have had them in videos regardless.
The only real alternatives to ads are either paying for the content, or having someone else pay for you. The latter is the case with something like PeerTube - someone else is covering the cost of the server and bandwidth without asking you for payment, and the creator doesn't get money from you just watching the video.
Paying to access content makes a lot more sense that hoping someone willingly watches an advert on their own hardware.
An indirect, alternate could be universal basic income - which makes it easier for people to choose less profitable options.
Just so we're clear, you're proposing UBI as a solution to a global website showing ads
Right. Turns out UBI is a solution to a lot of things.
Are you aware that more than one country exists?
To authors of works getting compensated for sharing their efforts. So here it's a video content on a website, but also any other works on any other protocol.