It does, but Youtube still collects your data and sells it to advertisers. So watching a video on Youtube could mean seeing targeted ads on other platforms. So the solution is to always use adblocking everywhere.

If the "ad-free" service features videos with inline ads, it's not really ad-free.

It serves the authors content ad-free. You can choose to subscribe to authors that do not place ads or sponsored content in their videos.

When I dropped cable I started subscribing to dozens of channels and now have a pretty solid subscription list.

Many creators I follow have dabbled in different forms of monetization, and I've preferred to stick with the ones that offer patterns or other methods of supporting them.

I don't think it's fair to criticize googles product offering for the content creators choices

> It serves the authors content ad-free.

No, it serves the content without adding more ads of its own.

> You can choose to subscribe to authors that do not place ads or sponsored content in their videos.

If not consuming the content I wanted is a solution, I can just solve all the problems by not using youtube. That's not really a solution.

The inline ads are part of the content you're watching, not injected by YouTube. You may not like them, but there's a distinction.

Yes there's distinction internally, but as the consumer I care that I'm getting ads more than the details

Interesting incentives. Watch scam ads, use an ad blocker (no longer allowed), or pay Google to go ad-free.

Looks like Google benefits by allowing scammy ads...

This doesn't let you turn off the recommendations algorithm. A huge chunk of Youtube videos are essentially ads. No dice.

Ublock Origin is great at anti-adverts and anti-anti-adtech.

For everything else, use SponsorBlock! (Crowdsourced auto-skip YouTube for annoying in-video adverts)