I’m right there with you. 
Life is but a stream, no matter how you slice it.
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To paraphrase Edgar Allen Poe,
All that we see or seem
Is but a stream within a stream
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Killed 2 birds with one stone for me as I was paying Spectrum and Tivo. Now with 2Gb Fibre, YouTube TV and several subscription I still pay less than before. Plus I turn off half the channels when I was done with my shows. I’m thinking about canceling Netflix, there are too many junks and not a lot of good movies/ shows.
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I have one set on my network.
It is crazy when I go to a website outside of home on my phone and see all the ads all of a sudden!
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I’ve always wondered when it eliminates the ads do you have these big blank spots where they ad should be or is it just gone?
Yeah that’s what I do - I cancel and let the channel rest for a couple of month while it can (hopefully) buffer up a few good shows, then I subscribe a month just before Christmas when I know I’ll be stuck in front of the telly 
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It’s just gone.
I suppose it might depend on how the web page is built, but usually just gone.
And another nice bonus, it works on mobile apps as well!
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Better check today! You may not have it! 
YEP!!! Wait until the ‘season’ is completed and the special offer comes out!
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OP here, just a quick update:
I must have had an ad-blocker back when I was running Win 10. It became disabled when upgrading to 11 (my computer goes to 11 now ;–)
I now have a couple of ad blocker extensions and am watching the yootoobs with no commercials.
…thanks to all who chimed in on this.
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I used an ad blocker for years, but in 2025 it started causing issues with YouTube. My son has a family Premium subscription, so both of my channels and his are now ad-free through payment.
I hate having to pay to go ad free ( Amazon Prime also, but that is now cancelled) but with YouTube we just have to suck it up. I still have an ad blocker installed on Chrome for everything else though!
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Having your own eww-tube account is a crap shoot and I would never pay them a dime for anything. Their policies of what you can, and can’t post is a serious contradiction in terms. I’ve had channels removed over the dumbest reasons. I don’t post play-along bass videos anymore because of ignorant ‘copywrite strikes’. Yet, I’ve seen content on eww-tube that was extremely racist, very sexually suggestive in nature, highly inapropriate for children and that type of content has gone unmoledted by Youtube for years. (And I could easily provide plenty of link evidence as proof).
I do subscribe to uncensorship free speech platforms that I signed up for which has served me well. Regarding Youtube, I 've had channels terminated for ‘circumvention rules’ violations.
In my judgement, ‘circumvention’ simply means that I’m smarter than Youtube’s algorithms.
I am by no means a go-to IT person… but the IT guru that my office uses (and has for the past 30 years) dissuades the use of chrome whenever possible. But, asking rhetorically, is it possible that the browser chrome and yootoob (both being owned by googly) are somehow linked behind the scenes? What I am wondering is if a different browser/ search engine combo might break this link?
I use Firefox with either DuckDuckGo or StartPage (formerly Ixquick) along with my adblocker extensions now with no commercials on the yootoobs.
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It is highly probable. I used Firefox many moons ago, I can’t actually remember why i changed to Google Chrome!
For ad free YouTube set your VPN to Albania, they don’t allow adverts
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