I myself contributed to those ad earnings by watching 4 ads in a 10 min video.
I know this is Youtube, but in general: I would gladly avoid those sites but they are gaming the SEO. They are getting in the way.
If you really have to use Apple devices and other post-general-purpose-computing locked down devices (e.g. televisions), you could try self-hosting privaxy[5][6] (or similar) which performs MITM manipulation of web traffic to remove ads, including via JS or CSS injection.
[1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.marmaro.krt.ffupdater/
[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fi...
[3] https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android
[4] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/ublock-origin...
IIRC content creators get more revenue per user from YT premium than ads.
Netflix starts at $6.99.
That's exactly double if you ignore the missing pennies.
Netflix Standard is $15.49 though, if we're comparing without ads.
The comparble Netflix plan to YT premium is $15.49/mo.
For comparison my 5G phone plan is £10/month, and my home fibre connection ADSL is £22/month.
YouTube premium is therefore a tough sell - with netflix you at least get loads of stuff you wouldn't have seen otherwise, YT you get the same stuff you could see anyway, just without ads.
I personally don't see that as a good deal. If it was like £2 or £3 a month to remove the ads, then great sign me up. But it's not.
All they really need to do is tick a few % of the marginal decision-makers who need to (for example) buy a car to say "I should consider a Ford" and they've covered the ad budget.