The population (especially the younger generation, who never seen a different kind of technology at all) is being conditioned by the tech industry to accept that software should behave like an unreliable, manipulative human rather than a precise, predictable machine. They’re learning that you can’t simply tell a computer “I’m not interested” and expect it to respect that choice. Instead, you must engage in a perpetual dance of “not now, please” - only to face the same prompts again and again.
You could have used ad blockers. You could have done any number of things. You were not forced to use YouTube as it is. But I understand … It is hard to recognize that we actively consume media. It is hard to think from perspective.