Paying to remove ads creates an incentive to make ads more annoying, which punishes people who can't afford to pay. I donate to a few creators. As for YouTube,

Paying to remove ads creates an incentive to make ads more annoying, which punishes people who can't afford to pay. I donate to a few creators. As for YouTube, Google can close it down for all I care, we'll figure it out. We'd probably better off, in fact.