I used to think that. I was watching a video from a guy (Rick Beato) claiming to not monetize the particular video I was watching (he's never claimed not to mon

I used to think that. I was watching a video from a guy (Rick Beato) claiming to not monetize the particular video I was watching (he's never claimed not to monetize any of his videos). He no more than said I'm not monetizing this video when it stopped for an ad. I watch a lot of music instruction videos and it's obvious the content creators are not in control of ad placements. Ads appear whenever Google damn well decides they'll appear, even if it's the most inopportune time for the video. In that way YouTube is actually worse than TV.