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Normally I despise anti-ad-blocker tactics as much as most folks here, but I want to give YouTube credit where credit is due: They provide a straightforward way

Normally I despise anti-ad-blocker tactics as much as most folks here, but I want to give YouTube credit where credit is due: They provide a straightforward way to pay for ad-free service. I've often complained when other sites don't do that.

binkHN 3y ago
To be honest, it's not entirely ad free. While I pay for it, the sponsored videos are full of sponsored ads as well. Yes, I make an effort not to support the content providers that are filling their videos with sponsored ads, but this is becoming more prevalent and YouTube Premium is becoming less valuable as a result.
- darklycan51 3y ago
  Which is why I go out of my wave to use sponsorblock and anti thumbnail addons. I'm not watching your embedded ad noty, there's a reason why LTT shadowbans anyone who mentions it
- freeAgent 3y ago
  You can also use the SponsorBlock extension to help with some of that (and contribute where someone hasn’t already done so).
- jeroenhd 3y ago
  I have Premium and I still use Revanced on my mobile devices because of Sponsorblock integration. It's crazy how many ads YouTube videos have these days.
- acdha 3y ago
  That’s unstoppable, though, short of deploying AI to detect references to sponsors. The only way to discourage that is to boycott the creators in question.
  - joshspankit 3y ago
    I agree it’s unstoppable (except by YouTube multiplying the amount they pay creators), but there are actually two avenues already available: 1. YouTube could force creators to add their own “sponsored ad” tags 2. SponsorBlock uses crowd-sourced timestamps to determine when the sponsored sections are In both cases they could be filtered out trivially
    - acdha 3y ago
      Yes, but the logical end for that is that they’ll stop have discrete sponsor segments and start mixing it throughout the programs like daytime TV used to.
  - tgsovlerkhgsel 3y ago
    As a user, you can block (skip) them with SponsorBlock (which uses a crowdsource database that's incredibly good). YouTube could easily stop them by making it against the ToS and enforcing it.
kevin_thibedeau 3y ago
That ad-free service comes with pervasive tracking.
- charcircuit 3y ago
  The algorithm is a key part of youtube. AI recommendations is both expected and useful to people.
  - kevin_thibedeau 3y ago
    That profiling escapes YouTube and pops up elsewhere in the Google intelligence service.

binkHN 3y ago

To be honest, it's not entirely ad free. While I pay for it, the sponsored videos are full of sponsored ads as well. Yes, I make an effort not to support the content providers that are filling their videos with sponsored ads, but this is becoming more prevalent and YouTube Premium is becoming less valuable as a result.

darklycan51 3y ago
Which is why I go out of my wave to use sponsorblock and anti thumbnail addons. I'm not watching your embedded ad noty, there's a reason why LTT shadowbans anyone who mentions it
freeAgent 3y ago
You can also use the SponsorBlock extension to help with some of that (and contribute where someone hasn’t already done so).
jeroenhd 3y ago
I have Premium and I still use Revanced on my mobile devices because of Sponsorblock integration. It's crazy how many ads YouTube videos have these days.
acdha 3y ago
That’s unstoppable, though, short of deploying AI to detect references to sponsors. The only way to discourage that is to boycott the creators in question.
- joshspankit 3y ago
  I agree it’s unstoppable (except by YouTube multiplying the amount they pay creators), but there are actually two avenues already available: 1. YouTube could force creators to add their own “sponsored ad” tags 2. SponsorBlock uses crowd-sourced timestamps to determine when the sponsored sections are In both cases they could be filtered out trivially
  - acdha 3y ago
    Yes, but the logical end for that is that they’ll stop have discrete sponsor segments and start mixing it throughout the programs like daytime TV used to.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 3y ago
  As a user, you can block (skip) them with SponsorBlock (which uses a crowdsource database that's incredibly good). YouTube could easily stop them by making it against the ToS and enforcing it.

kevin_thibedeau 3y ago

That ad-free service comes with pervasive tracking.

charcircuit 3y ago
The algorithm is a key part of youtube. AI recommendations is both expected and useful to people.
- kevin_thibedeau 3y ago
  That profiling escapes YouTube and pops up elsewhere in the Google intelligence service.