One of my biggest issues with the ads is that they're mostly scams. I just get ads for shit I know isn't real
this post was submitted on 14 Nov 2024
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My tipping point was YouTube serving the same one ad months on end to me.
I was fine with ads a decade ago. I tolerated them increasing the amount five-fold over the years. But that was borderline torture, and getting an adblock was the only working solution.
Omg the Temu ad bombardment made me pull my hair out
Grayjay be like
Hi, would you like to try Youtube Premium PLATINUM for only another $2.99? It's EVEN MORE ad-free! We mean it!
Youtube Premium plus Ultra!
Coming soon: new Youtube Premium Plus EXTREME Ultra! It's NEW!!!
I use New Pipe for android and Freetube for desktop. I have all the YouTube premium features at $0 cost and no ads hehe
I haven't been able to use new pipe since a few months back, did they fix it?
My NewPipe hasn't broken for a significant time in quite a while, it's good to go in my experience
I use revanced, it's good
Don't worry, simply pay for Youtube Premium+ to get rid of ads on Premium!
Suckers paying for it
I'd bet that channel "members" don't get ads for that channel regardless of premium status.
IMO, Google made premium, almost nobody bought it. So they went after adblockers, hoping that people would get premium to get rid of the ads. People most just Adblock harder.
While this is happening, one exec is peering over the fence at twitch. Where they only way to get away from ads without a pretty good Adblock, is to subscribe to the individual creator.
So they make "memberships" to channels a thing.
Almost nobody buys that either. So they go... What if, even if someone is premium, we give them ads, unless they're a channel member.
Genius.
Paying to block ads per creator/channel/whatever, is a special level of bullshit that twitch has always had.
The system is working as expected. The companies are trying to find the best way to extract the most value from you using their platform.
People are buying memberships though?
Usually you see this for creators like vtubers.
I like them but I will never consider memberships. At best I will sub to an actual service like floatplane or nebula
This is all conjecture right?
Indeed. I have absolutely no way of knowing anything for certain.
I'm just screaming into the void from this hellscape we call Earth.
The second i see an ad in cancelling my subscription
You do see ads, you just don't realize it. There are multiple 1-2 minute videos on your feed usually with the title "Introducing [insert product]" and these are product placements that YouTube is very well aware of. They also had the audacity to tell me that these are ads but they don't "interfere" with me watching videos. So, they are injecting ads into premium subscriber feeds already. Disgusting company.
That's true.
I can skip those at least. And do with sponsorblock
Same.
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