Expecting Youtube to provide ad-less and free version is either naivete or sense of entitlement. Regardless, you are entitled to nothing.

I am not talking about ad-block users, so lower down your pitchforks. As long as many more people watch with ads, adblock will not hurt anyone that mich.

YouTube ads are annoying, I hope a new platform becomes the new standard soon

@elgringo Network Effect says Youtube won't be replaced soon. The single best indicator of a video platform living is its current age and the number of users/creators in it. Youtube is probably the oldest standing and has highest population. You can't replace Youtube easily with something objectively better, it does not work that way unfortunately.

@aviophile will be hard but not impossible