 Everyone with a youtube account knows that there are people making a lot of money from the ads. This might be true if you are a big youtuber or if you made a viral video with millions of views. On the other hand, if you are small created like me, the story is completely different. As soon as I was able to add ads into my videos I wanted to try it. I wasn't really sure about how much money a small channel like mine could make, but after 3 years making videos, I can tell you that for my channel it makes no sense to have ads enabled. So starting today I'm turning them all off. This is how much money I made from it, which if you check per month that is the same as 2 patreons but worse. With youtube ads, a lot of companies can advertise their stuff on my channel without me even knowing or endorsing them. And the worst part, it takes you longer to see what you came here for. I, like probably most of my audience, use an ad blogger on my desktop pc, but every time I'm watching a video on my phone I notice how polluted the platform is. Moving forward, my plan is to stop using youtube ads, this doesn't mean that I won't ever turn them back on, but if I ever do it needs to make sense for me to do it. And I will miss a bit of that money, but I believe you deserve seeing the videos without any interruption. You can thank all my patreons for being so generous because if it wasn't for them I would probably leave the ads on to justify the time I invested in making the videos.