Time to update the quote?

"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death, taxes and ads."

YouTube on desktop with an ad blocker is glorious. (Well as glorious as the intrinsically crappy content itself can be).

Better use another another frontend, to avoid all the issues and bugs of YouTube's video player and avoid loading tons and tons of unnecessary crap.

I've been paying for YouTube Premium ever since it became an option, it's basically the only way YouTube is tolerable. It's by fare the subscription I'm getting the most benefit from. If it was not available, my YouTube consumption would drop to damn near zero. When I see other browse YouTube with ads it feels like you're going mad, it's absolutely infuriating to witness.

It's difficult for me to see Netflix as being any different. I'm already not getting that much value from the service, so why should I pay if there where ads?

One fact which is often overlooked in the non-US markets is the lack of ads. For a service like YouTube, it's the same five ads over and over. There simply isn't enough inventory in the ad space to supply something like Netflix.