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Except for the ‘this video has been sponsored by…’ as soon as the content creator gets remotely popular. Am I paying for the removal of ads or not.

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Nothing has changed about those ads one way or the other

Besides, these are easy to scroll forward through

I just use the Sponsorblock extension

This is up to the creators, not YouTube.

YouTube demonetizes for socio-political reasons forcing creators to seek alternative advertising, so no, it is up to YouTube, not the creators.

If that was true then more popular creators who already get enough money wouldn't add sponsored segments, and creators who don't get many videos demonetized wouldn't add it either.

But there is no limit to greed so people add them anyway, only way youtube could stop that would be to ban such segments and remove videos with them from the platform.

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