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> I’ve stopped using YouTube because of the crazy ads. Why not pay for YouTube Premium? At the end of the day, you need to pay in some way to fund the creators

• cobookman 6y ago
  You still have ads with YT Premium. Most creators place multi-minute ads in their content.
  • rajup 6y ago
    I think you mean sponsored content which is not quite the same as ads/
    • cobookman 6y ago
      When you're watching a video and there's a ~1min segment on squarespace...etc, its an ad.
  • d1zzy 6y ago
    So the content creator has decided to insert their own ad inside their content resulting in a worse user experience (since you seem to be complaining about it). Should Youtube ban in-content third-party ads?
    • cobookman 6y ago
      I believe YT makes a cut of this ad rev. It's also much harder for ad blockers to block these kinds of ads. So why would YT block it?
      • halflings 6y ago
        How would YouTube take a cut of this ad revenue? It's not disclosed anywhere on the YouTube platform.
  • pengaru 6y ago
    In case you haven't noticed, most youtube content is marketing something. Sometimes it feels like the overt ads trivially overcome by adblockers or youtube-dl are there just to be something extremely obnoxious you can circumvent and feel relief from while still consuming marketing that is only made desirable by contrast.
    • ByteJockey 6y ago
      Is this a shot at the ads being the majority of the content these days, or are you just watching kinda shitty channels?
  • Orphis 6y ago
    They're quite easy to skip on most content. Some even put a "loading bar" to easily identify when it's going to end.