Youtube absolutely gets it; the profit increases, meaning it's successful at optimizing the most important metric set by the capitalistic system we have the marvelous pleasure to partake in involuntarily.
We do have a wonderful economic system and I'm proud of it. Yet, I no longer feel incentivized to continue watching and throwing Ad dollars their way associated with my personal login, because they habitually ignore what I tell them I don't want, including in multiple Feedback posts using their feedback tool.