YouTube is an incredibly valuable product. It's hard to believe that it's possible for a platform like this to exist at all, even more be sustainable with ads only (maybe it isn't though). I'd gladly pay $20/mo for that – to anybody other than Google.
I do understand that with Premium they actually have an incentive to pivot from their current surveillance tech niche to a more decent model, but uhhhh. That's Google we're talking about. It's just not happening.
I use ad blockers everywhere, but for me it’s „set it and forget it“. I don’t have time and energy to adjust that regularly.