I primarily watch YouTube on my smart TV. There are pretty much no other options to avoid ads.

The vast majority of content my wife and I consume are on YouTube and Twitch so we get a ton of value out of YouTube Premium. I’m the only one I know irl who pays for YouTube Premium, but I also don’t subscribe to any streaming platforms except Spotify. I have Netflix free through T-Mobile but rarely use it.

As someone who was hesitant about YouTube Premium at first, I would recommend it, although I do wish they had a cheaper ad-free-only option (I don’t use YouTube music since I have Spotify). My motivation that put me over the edge was getting sick of seeing ads on my smart tv, since you can’t use an ad blocker on those.

I thought this guy was supposed to be stepping down - didn’t he even announce the new CEO?

Here is the open issue regarding this https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3008

I hope this is fixed soon, it basically makes any feed unusable and is incredibly annoying.

edit: it was just closed as completed so that’s a good sign