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I resonate hard with this, and I'm glad it's being flagged as a trend. I didn't quite realize how soul-crushing ads were until I got rid of them. Now I'm on You
by sakras 3y ago
I resonate hard with this, and I'm glad it's being flagged as a trend. I didn't quite realize how soul-crushing ads were until I got rid of them. Now I'm on YouTube Premium and Twitch Turbo and look forward to getting rid of more ads.
- jamiedumont 3y agoOver the past 2 months I've switched from a YouTube Premium subscriber, to a regular logged-in YouTube user and finally to a no-account user. The increase in ads, particular transitioning to no-account; is staggering. YouTube adverts have always been prominent and irritating but without an account they are downright aggressive. I think an 18 minute video I watched last night had a pair of adverts served every ~2 minutes. I stopped Premium and deleted my account to disincentivise watching YouTube as it became a huge time sink and procrastination tool for me. My solution will either work because the ads make the entire experience unpleasant enough to not bother with YouTube at all, or I'll be driven back to Premium just to save some time. Of course this is exactly the situation that YouTube wanted to engineer, and have succeeded in doing so, but it just seems such an awful way to incentivise subscriptions.
- wildrhythms 3y agoThe advertisers want to make the internet like TV: the thing all us internet users tried desperately to escape from.
- jamiedumont 3y agoUpdate to add they've found a way to make me want Premium again. Serve the same brain-dead weight loss advert EVERYTIME!