This is a bit like avoiding plastic straws for environmental reasons. It's not going to change anything. At some point, everyone who is willing to give money t

This is a bit like avoiding plastic straws for environmental reasons. It's not going to change anything. At some point, everyone who is willing to give money to avoid ads will have done so and then prices will rise and thoughts of an ad-supported cheaper tier will occur. We are seeing this with Netflix right now. What needs to change is the unsustainable capitalist model that demands ever higher growth and profits. Also, Google is at the heart of it, paying for yt won't make one iota of change in how they think about ads and data extraction.