I’m in the exact same mindset as you; youtube allows you to pay to rid yourself of ads (which is ironic because the more free you are with money the more attrac

I’m in the exact same mindset as you; youtube allows you to pay to rid yourself of ads (which is ironic because the more free you are with money the more attractive you must be to advertisers)- so I think they are better than most. but if I must take an alternative position: the last time I used youtube without premium (which happens sometimes because its not so smooth to log in if its a temporary session); the number and length of the ads was absurd, multiple levels of unskippable ads, minutes long, with volume that is much higher than the content itself. Awful experience and I can see why people who don’t have the free money want to lower it a little. Thats of course not including sponsored content which contains an ad inside the video itself- even YT premium users get those.