A couple five second ads I can handle. What I can't handle are two unskippable 15-30 second ads at the beginning of every video and at 2-3 random points throughout each video without warning; especially after over a decade of pretty much never watching ads for anything.
Then you rewind to a part needing review and end up seeing the damn ads again. Same irrelevant ads that I cannot figure out why they insist on me seeing.
its not about a couple of five second ads, its about the principle
said principle being that i shouldnt have to spend a minute or less of literally no effort to support folks making content for absolutely no fee on my part
content creators should rely exclusively on donation money (which I will also not be giving them)