> I'm not paying for anything until they remove the "this is the bubble we have prepared for you" recommendation algorithm.

Indeed, and what bothers me most is that it is "one" bubble. I wish there was a selection of tags to choose what mood I am in. Sometimes I only want math and science suggestions, sometimes I want to watch 3Dprinting or FreeCAD video's and other times I just want to discover some music. But Youtube mixes these three different moods together (even though I never play music on Youtube in the morning, nor watch math video's in the late evening). Please Youtube, let me choose my current 'bubble'.

You can go directly to the subscriptions tab.

Or hell, Youtube has an API; You can write your own frontend.

Repitition reinforces the ads, just like in other 'learning', advertisers will always want us to retain their ads, I can't see the 'waterboard them with annoying ads' technique going away in any country that Capitalism manages to keep its talons embedded in.

Check out the 'Unhook' browser extension.

And more recently Netflix for their ad-supported lowest tier. Not sure if it has been rolled out yet though.

That's fair. Because also probably the people the advertisers want to reach MOST are exactly the people who have the spare money (and willingness to spend it) to shell out for YT Premium.

But yeah I'd pay to get rid of all the "this video is sponsored by brilliant/nordVPN/whatever".

Sigh.

You mean embedded native stuff? No, but SponsorBlock does and I use both. YT Premium pays creators for YT views and the analytics don't appreciably differentiate whether you watched an ad or skipped it, so I'm pretty comfortable with the two.

(The apps don't work with SponsorBlock and that does drag, but I mostly don't watch native-advertising videos on my TV so whatever.)