This. They spend billions of dollars to make you watch ads, if you don’t watch them then they are pissing away their money. I haven’t seen a digital ad in years, but it took a one-time investment of time to set up a pihole adblocker, switch to a privacy focused phone OS, setup custom launcher on my Android TV box to have an ad-free home screen, etc. I pay for ad-free YouTube, but that’s the only paid service I use, and I use a client that skips over every in-video ad automatically. Granted, I have a huge Jellyfin server that makes it so I don’t have to use any of the big streaming services

Edit: Feel stupid for responding to a bot, but oh well. Robot made a good point lol