YouTube is now an ad engine interspersed with some videos between the ads.
That's ~$6 per month to enjoy YouTube completely ad free, allows you to download YouTube videos to your phone for offline viewing, allows background play, _and_ gets you YouTube Music Premium(I still am using Google Play Music, but this is basically a "free" Spotify subscription) as well.
Its such a good value for me and I think it'd be a great value to a lot of other people as well but every time I mention it I feel like people have never heard of it.
Didn't they shut down Google Play Music recently?
I buy a highlighted message in a stream every now and then or "join" a channel. But I won't ever accept to pay just not to have ads in front of my videos just to hear the guy saying this is todays sponsor, no.
Perhaps as a result, I get very few ads when I use YouTube. Maybe 2-3 ads per week. I go to a friend's house (also Apple TV) and every video they open they have to wait through 2 ads to watch it. Even with the same videos as the ones I watch.
Maybe I've found a loophole in the system?
It's been a while since I subscribed to YouTube Premium, but as I recall some of those midroll ads were unskippable.