We've seen this movie before: You can pay to turn off ads all the way up until YouTube decides to change the bargain.

You can also install uBlock Origin.

https://drhyperion451.github.io/does-uBO-bypass-yt/

It’s like $16/month which is insane

im good. for entertainment SoundCloud and netflix are good enough, youtube just makes good recommendations. not worth >$100/year