My mother has:

* Got me a "BearSkin" jacket from youtube's incessant advertisement.

* Signed up for a $250 subscription to "The Daily Beast" when she was watching youtube tv right before bed and probably subscribed when she meant to just view.

* Signed up for Norton Antivirus when she got a gif that looks like a popup that tells you have a virus and it opens to a Subscription Plan on her phone.

None of these things were things she particularly wanted, some she didn't even consent to, but a combination of paid promotion / advertisement / confusion about the UI is basically doing things against her will.

I literally got her Youtube Premium just so she stops seeing all the ads that are feeding on her. It is a problem.

> got her Youtube Premium just so she stops seeing all the ads that are feeding on her

I don't blame you for your solution but it is so sad that we have to basically pay protection money to Google now so that our loved ones don't get scammed and robbed while they are consuming addictive/slop content.