As a YouTube premium subscriber, I think they should credit your account every time you go to watch a video and start playing an ad because they signed you out for no reason.
I don't mind subscribing to remove ads and improve payments for the channels that I watch, but if I am going to pay to remove ads, I don't want to see ads. Ever.
A few reasons I pay is we watch YouTube on your living room TV and while there are ways to block ads it is easier to just not have to worry about. Second we want to support the channels we do watch and if we can do that without ads all the better. Third it comes with YouTube music (while not the best it works fine for us)
I was paying $90 a month for cable TV (which is full of ads) and found myself spending more time watching videos on YouTube.
So I cancelled the $90 cable and paid the $12 for YouTube to get rid of its ads. Without the annoyance of ads, I started spending even more time on YouTube.
I can still sometimes find live news or clips from earlier cable programming and other stuff on YouTube, so I'm not totally cut off from what I watched on cable.
YouTube is my most used source of entertainment (or at least way up there) so it’s not that hard to decide to pay for it to lose the ads (on tv, phone, etc.).
I have YouTube premium because it comes bundled with YouTube music which I have because I'm still somehow grandfathered in to some lower promotional price I paid for Google play music years ago when that first came out.
I believe they are revoking the grandfather plans this yr. I received an email saying my price was going up and I've had it for years at the same price