Not everyone makes the same income, has the same expenses, or has the same priorities. I disabled adblock about a month before started my YouTube trial because

Not everyone makes the same income, has the same expenses, or has the same priorities. I disabled adblock about a month before started my YouTube trial because I wanted to do a fair comparison. What I have found is that the removal of ads is simply not worth the $18/month YouTube Premium costs in my country. For that price, I would rather just see ads even without any adblocker. There are a LOT of things I could spend $216 on that would give me more pleasure than not seeing YouTube ads for a year. Even better, I could just reconfigure my adblocker a couple of times a year (something I already do due to the malware arms race). That's way better than cutting $216 out of my hobby budget. Now, if I had the option to get YouTube Premium (or some reduced version of that only offered ad removal) for about half the current price, then it would probably be worth it. (And no, I do not buy fast food, either. It is more expensive and tastes worse than something I can whip together at home.)