If you pay for YouTube, there are no ads. [edit] except for those ones that podcasters add in the middle. "[15 minutes in] Alright, now is a great time to tell you about my sponsor tell you about my sponsor!", and you skip ahead, and it shows the product nonetheless.

I find _yt-dlp_ to be the best ad-block solution for Youtube. One can watch it offline and archive it if value has been found.

Web Brower with ad-blocking setup can still have advertisements leak through. When it does and it still does after three refreshes, I just don't watch and move on.

I will always be a sunk-cost for Google.

YouTube is tolerable with ads. If I found it intolerable, I would pay. Or not visit.

YouTube premium is one of the best subs you can buy if you watch a lot of YouTube. Plus you get Music.

You talking about the creators that have ads in their videos?

I tend to skip those, although map men's are good, but I also tend to prefer those who don't have ads.