Everyone knows you need to pay for YouTube Premium-Pro-Plus if you don't want to see ads. Only 69.99 per ~~month~~ week.
this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2024
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Alright where are all the YouTube premium apologetics that keep appearing everytime someone discusses any sort of Ad-blocker?! What do you guys have to say now?!
No ads so far here but I definitely will cancel Premium if I start seeing ads. That’s literally the only thing I’m paying for.
Same. No ads yet but will cancel and delete if they start showing up.
Been slowly moving over to Nebula anyway.
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These are screenshots and don’t prove anything.
I'm continuing apologising for premium exclusively because it pays creators more, and more consistently. I never go on the internet without all the adblocks possible, the sight of an add makes me irrationally angry. I'm still paying for premium
most creators have patreons or sell merch. youtube doesn't get a cut from that so you can support more directly!
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I heard tell from a Gen Xer who said cable TV used to not have ads.
Premium+ coming in 2026 for truly ad-free experience. Premium++ coming in 2028 for truly truly ad-free experience. Premium+++ coming in 2030 for truly truly truly ad-free experience.
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The guy who took this screenshot and posted it to Reddit likely has Premium Lite, which still shows ads on music videos. The title of the video is probably cut out to hide it.
Premium Lite is hilarious branding. "Oh, it's high quality, but like, less. Quality Lite"
It's like when they sell a medium pizza but no small. Bitch, you can't have "medium" if you don't have a small and large to compare it to!
Actually I don't know if it's like that at all...
"All animals are born equal, but some are born more equal than others"
Worse experience than with just ublock origin AND you get to pay for it. Imagine being this much of a sucker
Basically the point is that you don't have to pay for the music side of Premium if you already have a different music subscription, which I think is nice. The branding is a little silly though.
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I think you are right. And the OP look like they are in Germany where they are testing these plans. https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/17/24272930/youtube-cheaper-premium-lite-subscription-limited-ads
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The moment I get ads in my Youtube Premium, it's done with Youtube Premium, and done with Youtube.
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What the heck is this "Youtube Premium"?
All I ever know was uBlock Origin.
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We are just one step away from YouTube being a paid only service.
I think that would be the death of the platform
I'm even wondering how people can use it as it is without ad blockers or clients like newpipe
Every time I use it on not-my-device I'm losing my nerves, because I have to watch at least 2 ads for a 1min video, when I want to show someone something
It would be a tragedy if youtube collapsed. There are so many useful and important videos on there. I passed the second year of my engineering bachelor almost exclusively by studying from youtube (the lectures at my college are useless), the vast breadth of content available on that platform simply does not exist anywhere else, and archiving all of it would be a monumental task. With youtube being a net loss for google for multiple years in a row, it's not outside the realm of possibility that if they can't make it profitable, they might just... shut it down like they did with Plus.
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The same way people watched cable TV for decades. The slow ramp up of ads has a portion of the population prepped to be slightly frustrated, but willing to deal with it.
But yeah having been spoiled with no ads for years now, I have to mute my parents TV every time I go over. Even muted, there's still something about lots of ads that draws my eye more than whatever the actual show is. Drives me nuts.
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I don't think I specifically posted about it on lemmy but yeah, I also concluded youtube would be going further 'pay to win' around this time 2 years ago.
Twitch will keep getting more and more monetized / ad heavy as well, until it just gets shutdown.
I'll be amazed if it still exists by the end of 2026.
Fuckingcapitalists
A story in three parts: get an adblocker, problem solved
Why would you pay for YouTube and then get an ad blocker? Seems redundant.
Also, YouTube has begun integrating ads server side, making them more difficult to parse out.
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Better: quit youtube premium, get an adblocker and live life hassle free
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Yeah, anyone who didn't see this coming hasn't been paying attention.
paying attention.
They couldn't afford to after paying for yootoob premium.
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People who use premium should organize to vow to publicly shame and boycott any company putting adds in their premium plan.
Like anti commercials.
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Fun thing, I don't want to get YouTube Premium because YouTube has a huge bunch of bugs and glitches and crap UI design and since they're the only service in the niche there's been no indication they'll ever fix their shit.
I didn't care about YouTube Music, so losing ads on stock YouTube apps was literally the only reason I was even considering getting Premium.
But if it doesn't even do the one job...?
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Is it a slow rollout or a experimental update thing? I don't have it on mine.
Only in Germany in a test of a lower Premium plan so far.
What's the point of paying for YouTube Premium if you get ads anyway?
You get amazing features like: background play (which is more of an annoyance), remember where i left off (which doesnt work whatsoever, even 5 years after it was first released), download video's to watch offline (you need to remember to download them first or hope that YouTube's recommendation algoritm didnt pick videos you've already wachted) oh, and you can get a slightly higher bitrate for 1080p. So basically it loses all value.
And YouTube music which honestly seems to do the heavy lifting on the value equation.
Yea, but your “download” f**ing expires! So it’s useless when you go somewhere with no internet.
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That’s fine, at least they just increased the family plan pricing by 60%. Oh, wait.
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