Or they take out 70% of the features it had at launch and make you wonder why you still use the thing anymore.

Damn, literally unwatchable. Let’s hope they re-upload with a fixed version so we can understand it.

Sounds like they are operating the same as all the other big tech companies then

For now you can use vpns to certain countries that don’t have ads at all, I expect that will still work to avoid server side ads.

It’s called DASH protocol and it’s designed to only have a small adaptive bandwidth buffer. The whole video will never buffer, only a small percentage of it.