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I fear this will only encourage the frankly absurd number of ads that have been on Youtube videos lately.
by gundmc 6y ago
I fear this will only encourage the frankly absurd number of ads that have been on Youtube videos lately.
- jansan 6y agoIMO they show you those annoying ads (two in a row recently) to make you subscribe to the ad-free premium service.
- mav3rick 6y agoYou can also get an ad free experience for about 3 dollars a month.
- mattlondon 6y agoIn the UK it is £12 a month for YouTube premium which is more like 15USD. Feels quite expensive when Netflix is about half of that.
- deadmutex 6y agoHow much is Spotify? YT Premium ~= YT Music + Ad free videos + YT Originals.
- ra7 6y agoIsn't YouTube Premium $11.99 per month?
- mav3rick 6y agoA family plan is 15 for 6 people.
- partingshots 6y agoIt’s a fixed number. So EU/UK people pay more. Same thing with games 60 dollars vs. 60 euros
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- polote 6y agoYoutube is almost unusable without uBlock Origin or you have to call it Adstube.
- silexia 6y agoPay the $10 a month or whatever for Youtube premium and never see an ad again.
- vkou 6y agoIt's a decent deal if you also want the YT Music (Formerly Google Play Music) library, not a great deal otherwise. (I do want the music library, so I've been a subscriber for a very long time.)
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- sniperjzp 6y agoYou can see this kind of comment in every YouTube related posts, please, there's no free lunch, either pay for the subscription or use tools to block the ads.
- gundmc 6y agoI have no problem with some ads. I have a problem with midroll ads every 5 minutes and ads >> 2 minutes long when I've stepped away from my device and can't skip.
- actuator 6y agoWhy not just pay for the service?
- pb7 6y agoBecause despite the common request to "let me pay a monthly fee to not see ads", the vast majority of people are too cheap to pay up. This is why ads are as prolific as they are.
- Jtsummers 6y agoFor me it's a bit of a Catch-22. I don't watch much YouTube content anyways, but I've reduced my consumption over the years because of the ads. From what I can tell, there's nothing I want to watch anymore because I no longer know what's there (and of value to me). So the prospect of paying is absurd for me as I'd be buying something with no real value except to remove an annoyance on the few occasions each month I bother to watch something on YouTube. If I had a clearer reason to increase my YouTube consumption, I'd entertain paying. Other video services have clearer value to me in the content they provide so I pay for them. I suspect I'm not alone in this.
- seaman1921 6y agowhat makes you think you are entitled to using youtube for free? The ad-free experience in Premium is great. And don't forget they are paying a huge sum to the content creators as well - it is a delicate balance.
- FartyMcFarter 6y agoI find it annoying that lots of content creators still put sponsored ads in their videos which are shown to me as a premium user. IMO those should be skipped automatically when Premium, but alas...
- ZephyrBlu 6y agoI'm not why you expect YouTube to skip sponsorships which are directly integrated into the video... Also, content creators do it because brand deals are generally a big chunk of change.
- FartyMcFarter 6y ago> I'm not why you expect YouTube to skip sponsorships which are directly integrated into the video... As a user, I don't care how or why the ads appear - they're ads regardless.
- actuator 6y agoI don't think YT should interfere. As I see it, YT is a pipe for content. If you pay for it through ads/subscription you are paying for the pipe not just the content. The content creator should be free to monetize their videos as they choose to like TV channels can show ads for a TV show.
- FartyMcFarter 6y agoBut I'm not just paying for the pipe. Part of my money already goes to content creators.
- SomewhatLikely 6y ago
- belval 6y agoCheck out YouTube Vanced, it's a YouTube app with all the advanced functionalities and no ads. EDIT: https://vancedapp.com/ https://vancedapp.com/
- gundmc 6y agoI don't want to avoid ads entirely - I still want to support creators and the success of the platform. It just seems as if the length, number, and frequency of ads has been ratcheted up to 200% lately.
- belval 6y agoProps to you for sticking to your principles. For what it is worth, I only started using it after the increase in ads.
- Crash0v3rid3 6y agoCan we please stop suggesting apps and extensions to circumvent these ads? They offer a paid service, exactly what people on HN wanted. You are stealing from creators here.
- jay_kyburz 6y agoThis whole thread is about google making $40B. They don't need your money. Keep it and give it to somebody who does.
- solipsism 6y agoI think you read the comment you're replying to incorrectly. You are stealing from creators here
- belval 6y agoMost creators make peanuts from these ads that Google insert everywhere. The real value is in sponsorships that I actually watch because it's part of the content. I don't feel the need to pay 10$/month to watch LinusTechTips which is itself 20 minutes long advertisements for PC parts, sponsored by their respective manufacturers.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 6y agoNewPipe https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe