when youtube first launched in 2005 there was no ads, so why all the ads now

on youtube, many videos are unwatchable now due to all the stupid ads, it ruins the watching experience...but back in 2005 and the few years following, there was no ads on youtube...so why now?

is it becase big corporations hijacked the site and turned it into a commercial tv station, and took the real purpose out of youtube? youtube was originally meant for ordinary people to upload videos, not celebrities or media companies, they have ruined youtube in my opinion.

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Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

Any time i visit Youtube i think it's original creators must be laughing their socks off.
Use other peoples content to create (what is essentially) on online tv channel) and then Google come along and buy it for what was it ? 1.5 billion ??

And then they dissect it into bits they think are worth watching and charge folk to do so.......Hmm !
Also have to wonder how much longer Spotify can continue in it's current form before it too heads in the same direction.