I get what you’re saying — and you’re right, we can always block, bypass or migrate. But that’s exactly the point I was trying to make: the fact that millions of people have to circumvent a problem instead of the platform fixing it shows how deep the issue really is.

YouTube isn’t just “another website” anymore — it’s basically global television. And when a platform at that scale becomes flooded with shady ads, fake products and scammy “miracle cures”, it affects people far beyond the tech‑savvy crowd who knows how to block or avoid things.

Alternative platforms like Peerhub are great (and I hope they grow), but the core problem remains: centralized giants shape the information environment for billions, and they’re clearly not incentivized to clean it up. That’s the part that worries me more than the ads themselves.