YT Ad Increase- Put Up, Pay Up, or Punt ? (OT Warning)

In the last 6 months or so, there has been an annoyingly exponential increase in You Tube ads. Time was that save for some occasional 15 second ads at the beginning of some favorite movie scene clips, comedy specials, etc, one could sit down and enjoy several consecutive minutes of the clip(s) without these annoying ads. Now a lot get interrupted every 3 frigging minutes with an ad. Often, there is the skip ad option, but on a 20 minute clip that ads up to 30 to 60 seconds of your time wasted/intruded upon. Afaic, that's a 5% productivity loss of my leisure enjoyment time. My (left ? right?) side brain resents this blatant "stick up", while my other side grudgingly accepts this as a cost of doing leisure.

So how have my fellow (I'm guessing some tusclers have some interest in YT) dealt with it ? Was the ad free payment option worth it ? (It seems like buying into this entails another different viewing platform.) Also, would donating to Patreon for applicable channels get rid of the ads ? If I join, say, Bill O'Reilly's website, would that do likewise ? What has been some of your specific experiences ? (I've heard that some of the ad revenue goes to some individual person's channel, so some channel "owners" may opt for a shitload of ads for the non- Patreon folks.)

I'm not a total cheapskate, I just hate letting too many little "ad ons" get out of hand. Thanks for any 411/insights.