I don't think Google deserves money for ai generated ads for fake boner pills.

Google already makes untold amounts of money from spying on me. Yesterday I started seeing new recommended videos related to a show I watched on my private jellyfin server.

Google spies on me everywhere, tracks me across the open internet and my local network, then sells this data to whoever for God knows how much money and you want to tell me I owe Google even more money?

Buddy you need some perspective.

Even if you pay for YouTube you will still see ads inserted by the content creators.

No, this is clearly a false equivalence.

You see the content you choose to click on. Should my premium membership mean that Youtube blocks me from viewing Superbowl commercials the day after? Or movie trailers? Premium is simply paying Youtube so that Youtube will not show you Youtube's ads.

That's not up to YouTube, that's what the creator is doing.

The creators must specify the start and end timestamp of the ad (some do), so you would be allowed to skip it easily.

You can if you have Premium. If you start manually skipping forward, the UI gives you a ‘Jump ahead’ button that skips straight to the end of the segment (based on crowd-sourced data, it seems).

YouTube could stop it if they wanted.

This is a silly criticism, but for the record the sponsorblock extension does a great job at skipping these.

So what? It's still paying to see less ads. If ads bother you, pay

>If ads bother you, pay

I have paid but I still see ads.

I start paying them when they start paying me for my data.

You are no more freeloading by ignoring the ads they serve you than by watching them.