SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube

YouTube (and Google's advertising platform as a whole) literally advertises investment scams, allows deepfakes, and has been known to have ads that link to fake bank websites and contain malware.

There is no advertising on the internet that doesn't have potential issues because at least the dominant advertising platforms (Google, Meta) work at a scale that cannot satisfactorily filter for the kind of things I've mentioned above.

Do you want your kids or parents or grandparents exposed to that kind of advertising?

Also, the "free web" is a thing that already existed. Advertising was an add-on, not a core component.