I have a YouTube Premium subscription which enables background play on Android. However even though I use that feature all the time to listen to podcasts, music

I have a YouTube Premium subscription which enables background play on Android. However even though I use that feature all the time to listen to podcasts, music or audio books, the main reason I got the sub was to be free of the adds. When I see friends watching YouTube. It looks like the amount of adds has gotten even worse than its already intolerable level a few years back.