@bashbunni@mastodon.social WRT ads on YouTube premium... Viewers subscribed to cable TV in the 1970s hoping to avoid commercial advertising (aka "commercials") on broadcast TV. Cable providers added commercials. The Internet attracted some viewers. Commercials followed. "Cord-cutters" went to paid streaming services. Commercials followed them there, too. Where there are viewers, there are commercials, even on "commercial-free" Public Media, where they're called "a word from our sponsor"