> The general theme is the same as the article: less real estate dedicated to actual videos you might want to watch. There were two rows of completely useless garbage that I had to add to my uBlock Origin filter just now: one for Shorts (which I have blocked in the past) and a new one for some sort of Youtube Games thing (?) that looked like the worst AI generated slop you'd never want to play.

This is the same stuff you get without buying Premium. So I guess they figure you're only paying to dodge the ads.

Which seems, to me, like a lot of money compared to (ad cost * number of ads you would see).