YouTube Premium is an actual product, but as far as I'm aware it doesn't generate much revenue for creators which I why I assumed they meant channel membership.

https://www.youtube.com/premium

Offtopic but I bought YouTube Premium a few months ago and it's 100% worth the money. YouTube ads are aggressive and it turns out I used YouTube all the time. I didn't really notice until I started paying for it how much time I spent having to wait for ads to end or skipping them.

Now I get angry every time I end up in YouTube via incognito when using social media and an ad plays.

Premium is definitely worth it if you want to support creators while enjoying ad-free playback. However, it doesn't solve the privacy problem at all - if anything it gives Google even more info as now they've got some verified payment details (you can't usually provide fake details otherwise the payment will fail).

uBlock origin will fix this (assuming you're using Chrome or Firefox.)

But not on the TV or mobile. Firefox ok, but it's also browser only. Youtube Music is quite useful as a radio player. Start with one song you like and it continues with similar songs. Key is it's just music and you have a list of albums of that band/singer/etc. Overall it's good enough but not really great.

Vanced was great for that. Also installed both apps on my mom's phone so she would not be irritated by ads. Being 87 she clicks on ads more often than I'd like. She even bought useless things from Facebook ads. She knows that I'll be angry so she lies about it. I have to protect her from the internet. She's a different generation. For instance I tell her about something being true and she won't believe me until she reads on the internet about it, because she grew up with "what you read is true". She's also exposed to lots of radical propaganda on Facebook. It's so bad that she quite often shares right wing videos and I have to step in and have discussions with her about what she's doing. But she isn't right wing at all. She hates all forms of nationalism or racism. Long story short. Adblocking isn't available for all platforms. But it's required for multiple reasons. Google knows and doesn't allow adblockers to be installed on mobile Chrome, because if they did their ad revenue would take a big hit.

Invidious will solve this problem on anything capable of running a web browser: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious

No, that's wrong - for most channels (according to creators) it generates much more revenue pre view than ads supported views.

It's just a relatively small part of overall pie because most viewers don't pay for it.

I was talking about overall revenue for the creator not revenue per user.

Then you've been talking about a wrong and meaningless metric.

> but as far as I'm aware it doesn't generate much revenue for creators

I’ve heard that per viewer it brings in a lot more than the per viewer ads revenue from non-Premium viewers.

Not sure what the typical viewer numbers for each are; probably depends on the channel a lot.

Bought Youtube Premium and have no regrets paying for a platform that taught me so much.

I once let the Premium lapsed and was bombarded by aggressive ads. Immediately turned Premium back on and it was almost, I kid you not, zen-like.