[jkaplowitz]

The ads interrupt the videos in really obtrusive ways: not at sensible commercial break points like TV ads or before the movie like in a movie theater, but frequently with timing that totally destroys the mood and experience of the surrounding seconds or minutes of the video. And they're getting longer and longer - I recently experienced half a minute of two back-to-back ads partway through an 8-9 minute video, and I'm not at all sure there wasn't also an ad before the video in addition to that. What an awful ratio of content to ads.

It bothers me far less to have ads at the start of a video, between videos, or even at transition points between coherently separate segments within a video than what YouTube is now doing. That's not hypocritical.

(Tangent: I do have a YouTube Premium subscription, but for irrelevant reasons we usually watch using my wife's account and she does not have one. So I see the ads anyway. Maybe that's the reverse kind of hypocrisy to the one you mean, where I'm wasting my money instead of being stingy?)