> would gladly pay the reader, listener, or viewer directly for his time and attention if they knew how to do so. At this point, I would rather engage in this

> would gladly pay the reader, listener, or viewer directly for his time and attention if they knew how to do so. At this point, I would rather engage in this transaction, than the myriad attempts to waylay me and my privacy. I’ll watch 1 ad, with full attention, tell you if it was boring or not, and if I liked it. If YouTube has an expected ad show for a single user at 1 every 15 minutes, and the average user watches YT for 4 hours a day, over 30 days, that’s 480 ad views? Assuming that 80% of them are repeats, that means that If I watch about 8 ads, I can be done with it. This is mostly impossible, I know. Still I would rather figure this out, than have to deal with the crap we are dealing with today.