I remember reading that thread! Well, kindly asking my half-german wife to translate it for me. It was very helpful!

I know this is really bad. And I know they need to make money somehow. But on precedent I just refuse to pay for YouTube premium, having been there since the beginning. Before adverts started showing, and everyone predicted they’d plague us with ads until charging you to get rid of them.

Also a part of me refuses to believe Google can’t afford to run YouTube without adverts.