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Is YT Premium 100% ad-free? I get the feeling that if many users start using Premium, at some point they'll see ads again.

• RaSoJo 1y ago
  YT-Premium is still ad-free, though they did bump up the prices recently. Being a monopoly gives them that kind of power, but they haven’t gone overboard—probably because they know regulators would start poking around if they did.
• nickthegreek 1y ago
  youtube does not put ads before, during or after a video for a premium subscriber. creators are in control of the content within that video (and that could include sponsored segments). if that is an issue, you will need to skip those or use something like SponsorBlock.
  • fragmede 1y ago
    Premium has a "skip section" button for those.
    • bauble 1y ago
      Is that the new button that's been popping up? And here I was blaming SponsorBlock.
• legitster 1y ago
  Not only is it ad-free, they provide a "skip advertisement" feature for in-video ads.
  • joseda-hg 1y ago
    Technically it's a "skip commonly skipped section" usually that includes in-video ads, but also long introductions, filler spaces and any other bits that enough people care to manually skip a few times
• munificent 1y ago
  Yes, but as YouTube payments to videographers have dropped, most have started filling the gap by having sponsored content inside the video, which is harder to skip and avoid.