I have a lot of thoughts on it. Ads help get the channel some money to pay back on their investment. I have a 5k camera, and when I edit a single 6 minute film it typically takes about 24 hours from start to end to produce, so it's awfully hard to say no to a few bucks to pay towards the deficit that is around $700 production cost. That said, get a good ad blocker. Addition
nally, we release everything on Rumble which has no adds after initial two (usually) and X.com where there are no adds but you are subjective to my rants, haha. Also podcast are on RSS so depending on feed there are no advertisements on base file.
One time I had someone go off on me about making an advertisement for my own business. I guess retailers are not supposed to do that

. I told them they could make their own video and never upload it if they wanted no advertisement. He never took me up on the suggestion but then again I've never seen him upload to YT so maybe he did? Haha
Sorry about the adds the suck for sure. Cheers