> I mind paying for a service that is optimized for "engagement" instead of my own well-being. > I mind paying to a company that doesn't know the time to stop

> I mind paying for a service that is optimized for "engagement" instead of my own well-being. > I mind paying to a company that doesn't know the time to stop growing and wants to crawl into every aspect of my life. It's worth recognising that as an ad-supported service, YouTube has an incentive to maximise the watch-time of its users and that this incentive goes away when a user starts paying monthly. But until they begin to earn more from subscriptions than ads I can't see how this changes. Maybe there's a universe in which the adblock crackdown actually accelerates the decline in ad-viewership and YouTube becomes incentivised to stop cramming cheap ad-friendly content down our throats and becomes a platform for actual high-quality content. For now, it's probably better to support platforms that actually already work on this model such as Nebula.