[probably_wrong]

There's one detail that discussions tend to ignore when talking about ads and YTP.

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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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[pests]

Find better creators. They are the ones making the content, after all.

Very odd to blame the platform for this.

[Cpoll]

I don't know if in-video ads are a mark of a bad creator. It seems like it's one of the only ways to make money on YT if your primary product is videos (as opposed to having a larger brand, product, merchandise, etc).

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.

[Crash0v3rid3]

You can forward through sponsored segments.

Or, maybe vote with your viewership and don't watch content creators that have sponsored segments.

[satvikpendem]

Or I could automate the process via extensions like SponsorBlock.

[HipOpotamus1489]

I've added the idea with the ad insertion to my Moleskin, as they said in Russia 15 years ago.

[vhcr]

SponsorBlock

[ACV001]

Epic