[matthuisman]

Removing advertising isn't done on purpose. Its just a side affect as the addons play the streams directly. Web players and android inject their ads on the client (CSAI - client side ad insertion) which kodi can't really do. Even if the addon did, it most likely wouldn't 'count' and they wouldn't get paid for it anyway.

The solution is they switch to ads that are injected into the stream itself (SSAI - server side ad insertion) which is getting more popular. I've mainly seen it on live streams.