I think they can choose like you say, I know Misha Grimes has answered this question because she says she always āforgetsā to take them out and then says Instagram puts loads in her videos and she has to go back and remove them.....
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but I think you can decide if itās just a free for all and you tube decides or you can specify yourself if you want skippable ads of the longer ones you canāt skip etc.... I donāt know the full ins and outs but Iāve seen a few you tubers talk about it before....