That's interesting because the UK TV licence is £159 at the moment, which a lot of people find expensive, but that pays for all the BBC channels and programmes they make and buy, and iPlayer, and all BBC radio stations.

Youtube Premium looks pretty expensive in comparison. I agree £60 is more of a reasonable price.

I suspect/predict the ads on Youtube are going to get longer, and more numerous, and more will be unskippable, and therefore more annoying.

So you pay for tv license and then get zero ads on tv?

BBC TV/Radio/Web sites/Podcasts don't have any ads in the UK.

Yes, they do have ads, but they're restricted to adverts for other BBC programmes. (That for some reason doesn't make them much less annoying.)

It's also not very good so even that doesn't make it value for money.

Not only zero ads, it's strictly no product placement and no brand promotion of any kind.

Apparently you can change your country via a VPN and pay whatever it costs in that country. Try India or Brazil.

I'd be worried about a post-hoc ban.

Then you'd post-hoc stop paying?

Don't want to risk my Google account tho