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by j1elo 207 days ago
If YouTube was an independent company, which it'd be nice if it was, then by paying for it you'd be supporting YouTube (in case you decided it was worth it and they treated you nicely). But as it is, you're supporting Google, which is arguably an undesirable thing to do given how "evil" they've become. So a first course of action could be to close the tap and don't give them your money for a service that they've enshittified in the name of profit.

They could also make the experience out of the box like SponsorBlock and skip the sponsorship segments, but they don't do that either for their paying users.