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I unsubbed from YT premium when I realized the only feature I was really paying for was not being bombarded by ads every 30 seconds of video. Sometimes you'll g
by JohnMakin 1y ago
I unsubbed from YT premium when I realized the only feature I was really paying for was not being bombarded by ads every 30 seconds of video. Sometimes you'll get back to back aggressive ads within only a handful of seconds. The purpose seems to be to annoy you into purchasing a subscription, which is really predatory and annoying. Or locking "features" behind a paywall basically every other app provides, like continuing playing even when the app is in the background made me eventually annoyed enough to just cancel, and I can somewhat tolerate the ads. If not it forces me off the app sometimes which is not what I had intended but is a nice side effect.
It would be one thing if the ads weren't incredibly annoying by themselves, the content is either really, really weird, seemingly AI generated, or annoying, or some combination of all of those. I cannot imagine who they are for.
- southernplaces7 1y agoAnd you don't use ublock for the free version? Or is there no alternative blocking option for mobile?
- JohnMakin 1y agoWhY dOn’T yOu JuSt UsE uBlOcK is not a retort to what I am saying.
- southernplaces7 1y agoIt wasn't a retort, it was an honestly curious question about why you'd tolerate being bombarded with ads if an easy solution exists that doesn't require paying. Simple enough, no?
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- anthk 1y agoThere's is for Fennec under F-Droid.org
- ryandrake 1y agoThis has always been my philosophical objection to paying for YT premium: You're not really paying for any additional feature--you're paying them to stop tormenting you with ads. "The free version should be deliberately unpleasant so they pay to make it pleasant" just isn't a business model I want to support as a customer.