Comment by bluGill
13 hours ago
If you can. A lot of subscription TV channels have ads even though you have to pay to get them. Does paying for youtube block all ads, and if so will it continue to, or will they change as so many others have and just make your payment remove some ads? I'm not even counting sponsored content in a lot of videos as ads, but they are annoying too.
If you are a YouTube Premium subscriber you actually do get a button that skips in-video sponsor ads.
Why bother about what YT will do in the future? Nobody can answer your question, but when/if they stop blocking ads, we can stop paying from Premium. Same as when any service becomes enshittified. For now, Premium does block all ads except sponsored content (i.e. stuff in the video itself).
As for sponsored content, I don't think that's under YT's control (other than that they allow it, imagine if it was forbidden: authors would complain about that arbitrary restriction). Sponsored content is like product placement, if you pay for a cinema ticket, why does the movie advertise products, cars, stores, etc? And is it the movie theater's fault?