I agree. I want to support YouTube. But it feels like we're having to pay a premium to not get shown ads, not an equivalent price. I don't agree with you about

I agree. I want to support YouTube. But it feels like we're having to pay a premium to not get shown ads, not an equivalent price. I don't agree with you about "most of the web". There are MANY places that will not allow you to pay them to not be bombarded by ads. Even then, to be able to not have to be bombarded with ads everywhere gets rather expensive, and in many cases not possible. I wish there were a simple way to be able to pay content creators (and by extension somehow the platform they are hosting their content on) for just the content. I know I'm in a VERY privileged position to be able to do so. I support a few creators on Patreon (which doesn't make up for using an ad blocker on YouTube, because YouTube still needs to get paid for hosting and providing the content). But many Patreon subscriptions feel ridiculously expensive for what they provide. I'm happy to send $1 to a creator once a month (in bulk through a single charge, to minimize the $0.25 + 2.#% cost that credit card processor extort), but some of these creators that create some content want $10/month for some of their exclusive content. Which is nearly what a Netflix or other streaming platform would cost, and have a significantly larger catalog of content to consume.