• LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    The reason YouTube makes the ads so unbearably obnoxious is they want people to pay for premium. That’s all they’re doing is annoying people until they pay. I’ve been paying for premium since the beginning, I know it’s awful, but at least I have never seen any ads.

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      7 months ago

      Until they pull a Microsoft and start throwing ads into the paid model as well.

      Or like all the other streaming platforms that you paid a subscription for to not see ads, but believe it or not you now have ads.

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        7 months ago

        Unfortunately, this is becoming increasingly common. Amazon now also shows ads on the Prime streaming service even though you already pay a subscription fee for it.

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        yeah I havent experienced it myself with YouTube, but I have heard some people say they pay for premium and they’ve started getting ads 😡 YouTube is a huge part of my life and I would be livid if this happened and I don’t know what I would do because I don’t know how I could live without YT I would love to say that I would abandon YouTube if they pulled this shit on me, but I just can’t even imagine my life without YouTube. I don’t pay for any other service, no Hulu, no Disney Plus, no HBO blah blah whatever the heck other people are paying for. when I’m craving watching something, I always go to YouTube. And I have several YouTube channels too, so YT is an integral part of my life 😭

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      7 months ago

      Yeah premium makes 15 dollars per month. Ada for an average viewer makes dozens of cents per month.

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        7 months ago

        yeah I admire all of you who refuse to use the YouTube app and you watch YouTube through a browser, but in my opinion watching YouTube through a browser is clunky and tedious.

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          7 months ago

          ReVanced, NewPipe, SmartTube. You’re correct that their mobile browser experience sucks.

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      7 months ago

      youtube prem + youtube music family plan with 6 total users at $22.99 is pretty reasonable.

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        I remember when YouTube was only $9 a month. Something something Pepperidge Farm remembers

        And I was grandfathered in at that price even after they raised their prices for everyone else, but then for some reason I got upset and I canceled YouTube but then I couldn’t live without it so I subscribed again and they put me back in at the regular price with all the new people 😡

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          I had the same deal, my comment is in regard to the family plan, which allocates 6 total accounts. I thought $3.83 per person a month was reasonable for the hd music alone, youtube prem was just a plus, but based on other comments I’m apparently a dipshit. 🤷