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I am honestly surprised, paid video on demand even survived the post-Netflix fragmentation. YouTube is free. uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock make it usable. Illegal streaming sites exist and are trivial to use without any risk.
Why even consider paid video on demand services?
those hacks are beyond technical capabilities of most people
Exactly ^
What percentage of YouTube users have either?
It must be tiny. And most are using the mobile app anyway.
On mobile I just run Vanced. UBlock and Sponsorblock are solely for my computers. Although I think a lot of people don't want to deal with Vanced and do indeed just use Firefox Mobile. I do recommend Vanced, though.