Excuses. With premium you could install sponsor block and legitimately say you've paid for the content. Youtube would be happy because they don't care that you

Excuses. With premium you could install sponsor block and legitimately say you've paid for the content. Youtube would be happy because they don't care that you skip sponsor reads, the creator would be happy because they got your revenue from premium AND the sponsor can't tell you skipped so even they don't care. In other words win, win, win. But I'm assuming this still isn't enough for you to pay because as evidenced by this thread there is always some excuse why it's not possible to pay for the content watched while at the same time blocking ads.