Crazy thing is Comcast costs less for more channels.You can take several steps to protect your privacy as you browse-but when we use the word privacy, we need to clarify what we mean. It's now $12/mo for premium and a ridiculous $65/mo for youtube TV plus more for extra sports and movie channels. They used to have a $4/mo no-ad subscription but that went away a few years ago. Plus you get YouTube Music as part of the package, which even if you already have Spotify or Apple Music or whatever is different enough in how it works (particularly in how it can pull from YouTube music content) makes it an interesting value-add. I watch a lot of YouTube, for reference, learning and entertainment, and Premium succeeds in removing every single annoyance or limitation while still allowing you to indirectly support content creators (although, direct support via Patreon, etc. Not lobbying one way or another, everyone needs to decide what's in their budget and what their priorities are, but I've found YouTube Premium to be my most essential 'media' subscription and it would be the last one I would consider dropping. Write software to click on SKIP ADS (I won't say if I've already done this.).Start paying for 'Youtube Premium' for less ads.In my opinion they've hit the threshold of commercial TV ads (if you don't press on SKIP ADS.) And since ads are tailored for each user, that makes the business much more profitable than commercial TV. That gives me a few options: And a huge percentage of those ads are at least 15-seconds (and longer, if you don't press SKIP ADS.) So 15 seconds times three ads is 45 seconds of ads, just to watch the first five minutes of a video. I remember a few years ago when they added a second ad to most ad breaks, and now they are occasionally forcing people to watch three ads in one ad break.

Youtube's ads are getting denser and denser.

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