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No, a bundled second thing that I won't use is worth $0 and so does not have to be factored in.

It's even worse, as they actively degrade the features you use.

With movies and music in the mix, international licensing agreements needs to be respected.

In short, I paid for YouTube premium to avoid ads. Then I travelled to another country where YouTube didn't have licensing rights for all of their movies and music, so my premium account was just disabled completely and I got ads again.

You can fix that with a VPN service, or by creating your own VPN network. You could buy a Digital Ocean droplet in your location and connect to that like a VPN.

https://www.digitalocean.com/solutions/vpn

1 - this is not a solution, it's a workaround. an adblocker solves the issue much better

2 - DO vpns are blocked (almost) everywhere

Are you asking people to pay additional money to a third party service so that they can continue to use a service they have already paid for and should be fixed by that service provider in the first place? Don't you think this is ridiculous?

Genuinely curious: if you bought YT premium mainly to block ads, why not just use Ublock Origin along with something like NextDNS?

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