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I get that, but an ad-free experience is the main benefit of subscribing to YouTube Premium. If they introduce ads to it, why would anyone pay for it?
by RussianCow 6y ago
I get that, but an ad-free experience is the main benefit of subscribing to YouTube Premium. If they introduce ads to it, why would anyone pay for it?
- hansvm 6y agoFair point; I wasn't considering the context. To try to answer you anyway, they've put a fair bit of engineering effort into making YT mildly painful to use without Premium -- things like not allowing sound to play when the screen is off (and covering your screen in ads for Premium if you wake up the phone to a running YT instance). I'm sure some people pay for Premium to improve that experience.
- ffpip 6y agoThey will limit the number of videos you can watch every month.
- RussianCow 6y agoYou mean for users not paying for Premium? They will almost certainly not do that, since fewer watches means fewer ad impressions, which means less revenue for them. Plus, they don't want to push away the users that spend all of their free time watching YouTube videos.