How about this, do a profit sharing agreement with channels. If a channel makes money from YouTube, YouTube gets a cut, and let the channel decide whether to run ads, use sponsor segments, post affiliate links, etc. If they choose to not monetize at all, they pay a monthly fee for hosting.

No problem with ads with https://smarttubeapp.github.io/ Or youtube revanced :)

Some Alternatives:

• Firefox + Ublock Origin
• Grayjay App
• Grayjay Desktop
• FreeTube
• NewPipe

just make it a subscription service already and see how many people remain...

They force paying customers ( yt music premium & yt premium ) to disable ad blockers, too. Why? If I accordingly to the contract shouldn't get any ads why they would need to punish for blocking ads which shouldn't exist :-)?

I dropped all my subs and only have youtube premium. I hate ads and I watch a lot of tubes. I don't feel bad about it since they share revenue with creators.

Explanation: they weren't using an (functional) ad blocker for some reason.

I haven't read the article, but surely this is an accident? I have almost no faith left in our capitalistic society, but surely even Youtube understands that nobody is going to watch an hour long ad, right?