This is like going back ~20 years and trying to stop publishers from placing shady ads in cheap yellow papers. The internet is just a medium, and Facebook / Yo

This is like going back ~20 years and trying to stop publishers from placing shady ads in cheap yellow papers. The internet is just a medium, and Facebook / YouTube are just mass platforms filled with people who click on these ads. But YouTube specifically has built-in segmentation that allows to skip this whole cesspit, it is called YouTube Premium. Same way you would skip yellow papers at kiosk and spend money on better press twenty years ago. (afaik Facebook was recently forced to introduce similar [half-baked] subscription model due to local EU regulations.)