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Paying $200 for Pro at the moment. If a single ad shows up anywhere I'm out. In the free tier? Well.. it's sad but inevitable.
by Tangokat 10mo ago
Paying $200 for Pro at the moment. If a single ad shows up anywhere I'm out. In the free tier? Well.. it's sad but inevitable.
- amelius 10mo agoThey might not show you ads but they can still recommend you certain products based on a sales commission.
- cube00 10mo agoAnd hide other products that don't bid enough in the keyword auction.
- gizmodo59 10mo agoI pay almost the same amount for youtube premium as chatgpt plus. And when I see the creators inserting their own sponsored ads I get frustrated. It stopped youtube's own ads but not the product placements and other ads by the creators.
- amelius 10mo agoAgreed, this would also make me angry.
- vlod 10mo agoNot author. SponsorBlock [0] works pretty well for me (on FF): "SponsorBlock is an open-source crowdsourced browser extension and open API for skipping sponsor segments in YouTube videos." [0]: https://sponsor.ajay.app/ https://sponsor.ajay.app/
- xiphias2 10mo agoI'm also on Pro and I know that I won't stop it even if ads subtly change the results. I expect all big LLMs to do the switch exactly at the same time, but later than the free versions.
- sethops1 10mo agoI'm genuinely curious about the unit economics on the expensive plans for each of these AI plays. It's common to parrot the idea companies are still losing money on them but hard to find actual evidence.
- lawn 10mo agoThe ad will inevitably show up, the question is will you recognize it?