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“Experiencing interruptions? Find out why” - Naah I’m fine dude, just take your time.
Oh that’s why it says this? Guess I’ll block this message too.
Oh no! The video is black for a few seconds instead of showing several ads for a minute! Whatever am I going to do???
Even if they keep the screen black for 30 second to a minute, I’d still gladly wait in silence than be subjected to advertisements.
If they ever make it impossible to watch videos without first watching ads, then I’ll just leave the platform. I have no loyalty to YouTube and I’ll sooner dump the platform and move on to other video sites than deal with enshittification and ads.
But they offer an ad free plan that isn’t expensive, and the service is really fast and reliable, and comes with YouTube music as well. Why pay for streaming sites that still give you ads like amazon or peacock, but won’t pay for YouTube?
I just dont trust them not to use the payment and account info to track me more for every other ad they serve.
They get nothing.
The way I see it, don’t make your thing free for 20 years if you want people to pay for it. At this point, it’s as natural and free as a summer’s breeze in our minds.
I don’t pay for streaming sites. 🏴☠️ And I definitely won’t give YouTube any money. I’ve always been able to browse their videos without paying a cent. I’m not about to start now.
Besides, I don’t like how everything has become subscription services nowadays. You used to be able to pay once and own a product. Now you need to pay monthly to have temporary access to a constantly changing library. No thanks, I’ll only spend money on things I can own forever.
If they ever make it impossible to watch videos without first watching ads, then I’ll just leave the platform.
Yep. Then it will be time to finally start exploring peertube or something…
I’ll never pay for YouTube ever.
The best part is that Youtube ad revenue is low enough that everyone who can is doing their own sponsor segments, so paying for Youtube to remove their ads doesn’t remove a lot of the ads. The only way to an ad-free experience is adblock+sponsorblock.
They’re eventually gonna start banning accounts for this and then requiring login to view YouTube.
Do ye folks not have newpipe?
How do I get that on iOS?
By leaving your walled garden.
You do you. I like my YT Premium. Many of the creators I watch there simply don’t publish anywhere else, and I don’t have time for ads, especially if I’m watching on my smart TV.
This used to be the case, but it’s a different equation now. Ads used to be one or two per video. Fine, I get there are bills to pay.
Now it’s pure greed and pushing us to a subscription for a service they purposely made shitty so we would think exactly what you are. 4-5 ads, with forced ads interrupting the videos, and auto redirects to more ads after the video fonishes. Unskippable multi-minute ads.
And if you’re thinking “well then just pay for it”, tell that to Netflix, Hulu, and all of the streaming services that were “ad-free” until they decided that actually, pay twice as much or watch ads (even though your paying).
So while I understand you’re saying, you’re assuming Google will play fair. They won’t. They will up the price, they will still force ads, and it will get worse. I’m taking a stand now saying enough is enough. I’m not rewarding them for enshittifying the service.
Check out Nebula, it is paid but there are no ads and they have a decent amount of YouTubers and are adding more regularly.
Also your feed is based on subscriptions not an algorithm.
Oh don’t worry, I’m there, I’ll happily give money to them
No one is assuming anything. I cancelled my netflix when they started that shit and stopped watching prime. These are services you can turn off when the terms dont align with your approval. If/When google tries the same shit ill cancel that too.
I actually find the value to be worth YouTube premium. YouTube music works crazy good on my cars wifi and infotainment, and i get 4 users that i can add to my family plan so now me and my wife and kids gets all ad free on any device. And i watch now YouTube that i do Netflix, and netflix cost almost the same for only 1 login.
Personally i support any company that provides me an option for AD free service. I can’t stand companies that charge me, and show ads.
I just want to be able to use it anonymously. But then they changed their payment guidelines requiring PayPal to share my address with them. So adblocking it is 🤷🏼
seconded
been a happy premium subscriber for like 12 years now. I don’t understand why ppl think a service that involves tons of server infrastructure to run should be free… just feels like immature entitlement
I think people have two problems with YouTube. 1 it is Google and therefore monumentally evil. 2 they started the service as free then enshittified it slowly. It’s not like they just added a few ads then left it alone. They have relentlessly added more and more ads to the point it’s disgusting. I think if it was always one way or the other, it would get far less hate. Me personally, I probably need about 30 minutes of YouTube per month. I’m damned sure not paying for that and due to said ads getting worse and worse, I’m using an ad blocker for sure.
Monopolist pricing is made up numbers to extract rent from the public.
If there was competition the price might be fair. Instead you pay whatever the Google exec thinks you will tolerate.
They didn’t start the service, they bought it with the long term plan of making it profitable.
Dude had paid for YouTube for 12 years he’s never seen a single ad
I agree that YouTube without premium is unusable.
Better option:
adblock+sponsorblock+donate your subscription fee for a good cause instead
Great; where’s the iOS app?
Lol
