blocks most ads
Super important and makes this completely useless.
this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2025
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With YouTube Lite, customers will be able to watch videos across verticals like gaming, fashion, beauty, cooking, news, and more, ad-free
Oh wow. They'll remove some, but not all, ads!
[T]he new tier won’t offer several benefits in the full YouTube Premium ($13.99 per month) subscription, like downloads, background play, or the ability to watch music videos ad-free.
Price-gating downloads seems pretty evil. The feature doesn't cost Google any extra money. It could even save them a little server strain if a user wants to watch the same video repeatedly. But clearly, this is where Google's surveillance pays off: they know what people want, and they know to demand an extra $6/month for it.
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Tempting, but I'll stick with free sponsorblock. I could be convinced to switch if they started paying me though
I'll continue watching ad-free as I please with my extensions, thank you. Until YouTube has the balls to shut down UBlock Origin and all ad-blockers, you can take your premium tier and shove it.
Oh a corporate advertising shill downvoted me. Aren't you cute? Don't you love being marketed to? Idiot.
If they bundled youtube music with it, maybe I'll consider it. But this lite version will have ads on music and music videos.
That's YouTube premium, that product already exists.
lol wait, that’s just YouTube premium isn’t it?? and that’s existed for a long time already
Every previous YouTube premium post used to be inundated with people asking for a YouTube premium that didn’t include music because everyone already has music from Apple or Spotify. This is YouTube’s offering for that, except it’s a shitty version that takes away more than just music.
Wait.... Isn't that what premium is?
Honestly a music video is basically one long commercial anyway I'm surprised they would have ads.
Or get uBlock for $0 😁
Eight dollars a month for fucking "premium-lite" is insane.
Yeah especially without full feature parity with YouTube premium. This $7.99 price should omit music but everything else from premium should be included, and even that feels a little expensive.
The only problem I have with the premium subscription is the lack of ad control from the content creator. They should have to put them into some kind of wrapper that I, as a premium member can decide to enable or not. As a paying subscriber I should be able to watch it 100% ad free without going through sponsorblock, which is a big pita to do on set-top boxes.
I will sit through ads of the people I watch that are small and trying to make a buck above YT's pittance. OR, maybe YT could share a little of that sweet sweet profit with them and then not allow them to do their own ads (hahahahaha)
Sponsorblock built in would be nice.
It's built in on free apps that block the rest of the ads.
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Good for them. Still won't give them money ever