You know, I don't even want to deprive people of money; as a yuppie who has money nowadays I am not opposed to paying for things I use if I could avoid the tracking and propaganda of ads.
YouTube Premium, for example, is pretty solid for the most part, and I'm happy to spend some money to support the creators I like, but they kind of fucked that up because now I have to deal with the endless ads for RayCon or ExpressVPN or SkillShare. It's a bit frustrating because I though I paid for "no ads", when in reality I paid for "we're hiding the ads you could have easily blocked for free".
Sure, but what I'm kind of getting at is that I would like to pay money for the ad to not be there in the first place. What annoys me is that YouTube Premium only gets you halfway.
Yeah it is a difficult place for YouTube as they would need to enforce rules that say the video maker cannot have sponsored content/ads within the video and I can't see that going down well as I highly doubt YouTube would be in the position to pay similar to cover the ad placement loss.
From what I have heard, sponsorships are well worth for the creators. Usually bringing in at least the amount that YT otherwise gave them, and often more.
You have to understand where the ad is coming from. With Premium, you play YouTube to not interject extra ads. They can't really do anything with the content itself.
They are however in power to make a rule that prohibits third-party advertising in videos, delete any videos that break the rule and ban repeat offenders. Every forum back in the day explicitly prohibited any kind of commercial content - I'm actually surprised every social network is allowing all kinds of commercial promotion, even more so considering they are themselves in the business of advertising (thus unofficial ads are actually eating into their bottom-line).
YouTube Premium, for example, is pretty solid for the most part, and I'm happy to spend some money to support the creators I like, but they kind of fucked that up because now I have to deal with the endless ads for RayCon or ExpressVPN or SkillShare. It's a bit frustrating because I though I paid for "no ads", when in reality I paid for "we're hiding the ads you could have easily blocked for free".