Benefits also include unhooking from the algorithm, just videos from the channels I subscribe to in the order they were posted.

I'm determined to stop giving Google money. YouTube ads are fucking annoying, but Premium's gotta go.

I give money to a bunch of creators via Patreon, pay for Nebula and handful of other niche platforms, but there's still stuff I want to see from YT, and refuse to feel bad about avoiding ads.

@stephen if you don’t watch on a TV the SponsorBlock extension is fantastic, skips not only YouTube ads but also has crowd sourced tagging of in-video sponsor reads and begging for subscriptions.