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Yeah it's called YouTube Premium. Think like a Netflix subscription but for YouTube. Google probably A/B tested different versions of YouTube to see which one g
by rubatuga 5y ago
Yeah it's called YouTube Premium. Think like a Netflix subscription but for YouTube. Google probably A/B tested different versions of YouTube to see which one generated more YouTube Premium subscribers. It turns out that the higher $$$-generating code (i.e. driving Premium subscriptions) is the one that bypasses Safari's adblocking engine.
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoIs there guaranteed no ads with Premium or do they still put ads in there? I mean some streaming services and of course the old paid cable TV did.
- rubatuga 5y agoNo ads at all. Now, wanna know what antitrust means? It means changing your YouTube policy so that instead of competing with just some random hobo PeerTube, they now compete in the same space as Netflix, HBO, and Amazon Prime. It means an entrant to compete with YouTube must now be a mega corporation. Of course all above is just my opinion.
- tsimionescu 5y agoGuaranteed no ads injected by YT, but don't forget that already most popular YT content includes ads inside the video, as a small bit of informercial style content somewhere in the middle of the video.
- omginternets 5y agoI remember when cable TV used to be like that...
- asdff 5y agoAt least you can scrub past those for now
- shpx 5y agoOn desktop there's the SponsorBlock extension, which skips them using a crowdsourced list of timestamps. https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock