Nothing grinds my gears worse than stuff you buy and integrate into your life unnecessarily degrading in performance/behaviour.
I might actually be about done with YouTube, which was. Shocking realization.
A lot of people say they'd pay if they were given the option to remove ads, yet surprisingly few people opt to do it for YouTube ( which you can even share with friends and family up to 5 accounts, so it can be a decent deal). Why?
Ads serve as a reminder to watch less youtube.
Indeed you fuel the whole machine and enable their monopoly though. Content creators don't have much choice anyhow.
That's why personally i pay for Premium ( split between multiple people), have Nebula and force myself to use it for creators on it, and support some on Patreon directly. YouTube is a monopoly and are deeply entrenched - i highly doubt any competitor could dislodge them, but i try to help them nonetheless.
This is actually what made me cancel my Youtube Premium. I hate ads and make every effort to eliminate them from my entertainment, but I found myself mindlessly watching hours of youtube without them. Back on the free tier I find I can't watch more than one or two short videos before I get so frustrated and move on to something more productive. Very useful.
Because it's not entirely clear on their premium page.
These three programs are the only thing keeping YouTube tolerable. When Google eventually Widevine L1's everything I'll bail entirely.