> If you're watching YT and think you are not seeing ads, then you're being foiled.
Actually running an ad blocker/paying for Premium means you aren't seeing ads, pushed by Google. Any creator might be showing you sponsorships/product placements of course, and Google has no say in that.
When I say "you're being foiled" I'm not talking about product placements. I'm talking about how Google designs its sorting algorithm for me, on my personalized YT front page and how that assortment challenges me to become involved, enticed even, to view/buy certain things.
So you think google is guiding you, based on your profile based on all the data they have collected on you, to (for example) specific tech product reviews in order to entice you to consume goods at retailer walmart/dell/apple/samsung etc?
Actually running an ad blocker/paying for Premium means you aren't seeing ads, pushed by Google. Any creator might be showing you sponsorships/product placements of course, and Google has no say in that.