YouTube

YouTube survives by advertising some key revenue that allows it to keep its services freely and infrastructure running. Users needed YouTube Premium to remove ads completely.

Most are related to technical issues such as the software is outdated, devices causing compatibility problems. Users are recommended to update the YouTube app, clear the application cache or restart their phone.

You are being trained based on your watch history, search queries and engagement (likes/comments) to give you videos that suit you. If any of these recommendations feel completely out-of-place, you can also improve them by choosing the folksy-sounding option "Not Interested" on certain videos or clearing your watch history to reset those suggestions.

No, the standard free version of YouTube is paid ads. The only options you have on getting an ad-free experience with background play and offline downloads is to pay for a YouTube Premium subscription.

YouTube has their automated system called Content ID. If you receive a claim, the details will be available on your YouTube Studio dashboard. If you think that the claim is made in error (e.g. you have the copyright/patent license or fair use applies), then there will usually be an option to dispute directly with platform.