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I've been using this service for a little bit and it's been fantastic. Ad-free viewing on my desktop has increased my YouTube viewing by probably 50% because I know I'm just going to see the content I want to see. Other notable features include Chromecast no-ads support (makes your YouTube parties much better) and offline downloads of long videos (finally can catch up on all those feature-length amateur films).

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did you just never use ad-block or something?

Doesn't work when chromecasting.

I like to support content creators. And no, I don't want to have to sign up for the Patreon accounts of every single YouTube user I like the videos of.

Unless you really liked being tracked, cataloged and analyzed, I recommend you use ad blocking even though you're using YouTube Red.

It's not advertising. It's advertracking. YouTube red removes the "advertising" part, but the "tracking" part stays. (Yes, Google could, and probably do, track you through an adblocker while you are on YouTube. But why tracking easy for them and everyone else?)

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