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I just pay for the product rather than jumping through stupid hoops to avoid paying $3/month/user. Paying to remove ads is how you get no ads. Refusing to p

by dangus 3y ago

I just pay for the product rather than jumping through stupid hoops to avoid paying $3/month/user. Paying to remove ads is how you get no ads. Refusing to pay for ad-free services just tells companies that there’s no point in attempting to make a good user experience with no ads.

totallywrong 3y ago
It's $14 a month for Premium. Most casual users can't justify that.
- zeroonetwothree 3y ago
  The average user watches 20 hours of content a month. So that’s not bad I think. Somehow I suspect the ones obsessively managing ad blockers to make sure they don’t see a single ad aren’t the ones that watch 2 videos a month or less
  - heinrich5991 3y ago
    I think that would be me. I don't think I watch more than 2 videos a month on YouTube.
  - dangus 3y ago
    Right, it confuses me that people think $14/month for YouTube is a bad deal and then turn around and pay $10/month for Spotify or buy three Starbucks coffees a month. Like, is it that hard to imagine someone using YouTube a lot and finding the premium service worth the cost?
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timbit42 3y ago
It's only a matter of time until you get ads even if you pay.
- belltaco 3y ago
  You already do, a good chunk of videos have sponsored segments.
  - progman32 3y ago
    And for that, sponsorblock.
    - _v7gu 3y ago
      Sponsorblock is quite literally an ad blocker, and thus not allowed on YouTube
      - dangus 3y ago
        It is not an ad blocker, all it does is seek through videos.
- zeroonetwothree 3y ago
  Then I will stop paying
- recursive 3y ago
  That will be the day I get off youtube.
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matheusmoreira 3y ago
Enjoy driving up the value of your attention even further I guess. Paying money only makes them want to advertise to you even harder. You're paying for the privilege of putting yourself in a list of people with so much disposable income they pay not to be bothered.
- dangus 3y ago
  I don’t really care about all the future hypotheticals. I’m not entering into a binding contract here. I want to not see ads. If someone sells that product to me I am buying. If someone doesn’t offer a way to avoid ads I’m selling (like how I used to be a sports fan and now I don’t tune in ). If I get ads in my premium subscription I can always cancel. I think you’re simplifying customer demographics. I think that companies and advertisers know that the people willing to pay to stop ads legitimately buy fewer frivolous products. The people who don’t mind ads are the ones who can be reached. These two customer bases don’t intersect.

by dangus 3y ago

totallywrong 3y ago

It's $14 a month for Premium. Most casual users can't justify that.

zeroonetwothree 3y ago
The average user watches 20 hours of content a month. So that’s not bad I think. Somehow I suspect the ones obsessively managing ad blockers to make sure they don’t see a single ad aren’t the ones that watch 2 videos a month or less
- heinrich5991 3y ago
  I think that would be me. I don't think I watch more than 2 videos a month on YouTube.
- dangus 3y ago
  Right, it confuses me that people think $14/month for YouTube is a bad deal and then turn around and pay $10/month for Spotify or buy three Starbucks coffees a month. Like, is it that hard to imagine someone using YouTube a lot and finding the premium service worth the cost?
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timbit42 3y ago

It's only a matter of time until you get ads even if you pay.

belltaco 3y ago
You already do, a good chunk of videos have sponsored segments.
- progman32 3y ago
  And for that, sponsorblock.
  - _v7gu 3y ago
    Sponsorblock is quite literally an ad blocker, and thus not allowed on YouTube
    - dangus 3y ago
      It is not an ad blocker, all it does is seek through videos.
zeroonetwothree 3y ago
Then I will stop paying
recursive 3y ago
That will be the day I get off youtube.

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matheusmoreira 3y ago

Enjoy driving up the value of your attention even further I guess. Paying money only makes them want to advertise to you even harder. You're paying for the privilege of putting yourself in a list of people with so much disposable income they pay not to be bothered.

dangus 3y ago
I don’t really care about all the future hypotheticals. I’m not entering into a binding contract here. I want to not see ads. If someone sells that product to me I am buying. If someone doesn’t offer a way to avoid ads I’m selling (like how I used to be a sports fan and now I don’t tune in ). If I get ads in my premium subscription I can always cancel. I think you’re simplifying customer demographics. I think that companies and advertisers know that the people willing to pay to stop ads legitimately buy fewer frivolous products. The people who don’t mind ads are the ones who can be reached. These two customer bases don’t intersect.