Depends on what you’re trying to upscale.

I don’t mind them adding ads.

I’m gonna stop you right there.

It literally costs them money to make YouTube worse so that you can pay them to make it better again. NewPipe go brrrrrr

“But I don’t want to eat the moldy cabbage on the ground outside!”

“Okay, do you have an alternative, or are you just gonna whine? Eat up!”

They probably did this specifically because people were upvoting our favorite plumber.