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Some YouTube Premium subscribers complain of seeing ads (www.androidheadlines.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Grayjay be like

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Hi, would you like to try Youtube Premium PLATINUM for only another $2.99? It's EVEN MORE ad-free! We mean it!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago

I use New Pipe for android and Freetube for desktop. I have all the YouTube premium features at $0 cost and no ads hehe

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

Don't worry, simply pay for Youtube Premium+ to get rid of ads on Premium!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago

Suckers paying for it

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

People are buying memberships though?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Usually you see this for creatora like vtubers.
I like them but I will never consider memberships. At best I will sub to an actual service like floatplane or nebula

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

This is all conjecture right?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The second i see an ad in cancelling my subscription

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

Same.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago

Good, I hope they raise pricing too and pay creators even less. Make it hurt. It's the only language users understand apparently.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 13 hours ago

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