The funny experiment: you may surf YouTube from Russia, then turn on a European VPN, and whoops!.. Non-stop advertising!
Pay for youtube premium.
Or if you have the energy to make an adblocker, instead of making an adblocker, direct it at some kind of project you could be paid for instead, and use those proceeds to get YT premium.
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Now back to out comment: paying for YTP doesn't turn off all ads. Nor tracking, for that matter.
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Very odd to blame the platform for this.
So you can blame the platform for showing ads and pocketing the profit... Although I wouldn't off-hand, I don't know what the profits are, and YT has historically been operating at a loss afaik.
Or, maybe vote with your viewership and don't watch content creators that have sponsored segments.
I keep seeing this repeated, and this has never been a valid argument, even if this may end up being true.
You can cancel when that happens.
It is funny how even in the 'premium' package data collection remains as is.
Does anyone else experience this?
Tbh I would buy Premium if it wasn't bundled with YouTube Music for an inflated price.
Content creators deserve to be paid, even if you don't watch them often.
But that idea in itself is, in my opinion, an extremist one.
The act of informing someone else about something is baked into the social nature of our species. Without it there is no specialization, we are all creatures living alone as nomads focused on subsistence and survival.
All you to do is watch monkeys teach each other how to use tools. That was basically an advertisement, a transfer of knowledge about a “product.”
Then you have to consider ads that save lives and help society like public service ads for seatbelts, anti-littering, child seats, etc.
Also, rich people see ads. They’re just different ads. Go to a yacht show in Monaco and you’ll see ads.
You will also be getting much more out of YouTube by using sponsorblock and other client-side modifications. YouTube Premium really doesn't seem as good of a value when you look at free and open source alternatives for most of its features.
But each to their own I guess, especially if you're within a locked down ecosystem. I personally despise proprietary technology, though.