Yeah, that's something people often forget about enshittification.

It starts by fucking up the user experience, sure, but on its second stage it fucks up the customers' experience too, and in its final stage it goes against even the shareholders.

Then the company dies, and the suits run off with the money, to infect and destroy other companies and eventually whole industries.

Most people don't know such a thing exists. They exist in a strange helpless state where they just assume problems cannot be solved, and put up with it. I don't know what that's like. I feel like when I was a child, I typed "get rid of ads" into the internet search and found ad blocking.

We all know people who unknowingly raw-dog the web all the time. Look at a site with their phone or PC and you'll have an aneurism.

Only on my "smart" TV.

Or something like Grayjay or any other app?

SponsorBlock for YouTube addon

YouTube added a “jump ahead” button to skip sponsor segments (I think it just goes to the “most watched” area of the video; which is always right after the sponsor segments).

They really don’t want any money being made on the platform unless they’re getting a cut

"Your eyes have left the screen, please resume viewing."

"You are bilking too much, please resume the ad visualization once your blinking returns to adequate levels."

visit a shitty clickbait news site that's unreadable with ads: that.

It can lose money all the time, as long as it's the biggest source of video content and they cancel control your experience. They'll make up the money in every other way imaginable.

I avoid products that get advertised in YouTube.

Yeah but operating at a loss while gaining market share in order to get bought out by a bigger company was/is the MO of internet companies.