What's worse, if you pay for YouTube Premium or Kagi, you're effectively paying for your content twice. No wonder, poorer people can't afford that.
I guess you could frame it like this: "Company are overcharging us by insane amounts anyways, so at least some of that money goes back into something useful through ads."
Its truly more than walletshare and tremendously mentally taxing or can destroy your financial wellbeing if unchecked.
"We will expose you to advertising and claim for a time to conduct ethical oversight, but when the revenue is large enough, forcing the advertising on you will become our primary business. We will enable the surveillance economy and take money from any source however dubious."
How is this true with YT premium? There are no ads if you pay.
That's not true. Almost all high quality channels on Youtube have some sort of sponsorship inside the video. It doesn't go away even if you pay for Youtube red.
So you now pay the cost of producing and delivering ads _as well as_ a premium so that you won't have to see them.
It's like paying for the construction of a guillotine and then pay to not have to stick your head in it.
Of course this is a simplified view: Not all companies benefit equally from advertising. Not all companies spend equally on ads, etc...