• @Mistic@lemmy.world
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      22 days ago

      My tipping point was YouTube serving the same one ad months on end to me.

      I was fine with ads a decade ago. I tolerated them increasing the amount five-fold over the years. But that was borderline torture, and getting an adblock was the only working solution.

  • @YogurtDoes@lemmy.world
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    2011 days ago

    Yeah I stopped paying for premium once I’d figured out using Safari on my phone with an ad blocker works with YouTube still lol

    • @stoy@lemmy.zip
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      1911 days ago

      With Alphabet, I treat anything related to delivering more ads as intentional.

  • @CosmoNova@lemmy.world
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    910 days ago

    Good, I hope they raise pricing too and pay creators even less. Make it hurt. It’s the only language users understand apparently.

    • @RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
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      1711 days ago

      They are “complaining” (more like reporting) about ads for people who paid to not have any.

      Do you have a subscription with this media company?

  • @qualia@lemmy.world
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    311 days ago

    Or sometimes it doesn’t let me play YouTube in a minimized floating way. Seems to be if I’ve been going back and forth between horizontal and vertical vids. Both normally allow floating minimized play but something about how they interact often leads me to having to force close the app, which loses me the custom queue I’ve been constructing. If the official solution is buggy…

  • @scripthook@lemmy.world
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    2510 days ago

    I use New Pipe for android and Freetube for desktop. I have all the YouTube premium features at $0 cost and no ads hehe

    • TonyOstrich
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      510 days ago

      What I find the most hilarious is that on a rooted Android phone there is an app that hooks into the YouTube app and eliminates adds in it. Even when my PC with Firefox and UBlock get temporarily blocked in the battle between Google and ad blockers my phone using the standard app still doesn’t have adds.

      I don’t know something about it is very satisfying to me.

  • @Phoenix3875@lemmy.world
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    13111 days ago

    u/Dangerous-Pizza7054 from the article,

    Seems like the user tracking “special promotion” overrides the premium. They don’t even say whether it’s expected or not. But my take away is that paying for premium may or may not show you ads, but you are definitely tracked and harvested for data. (Maybe even more so, since, well, you are more valuable to them.)

    • TonyOstrich
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      1710 days ago

      That has been my specific issue with paying for any Google product always. I understand when I am using a product for free that I am not necessarily the customer and that money has to be made off of me or the users more generally somehow. That’s “fine” (ish, not really, but that has more to do with issues of security than anything).

      However when I pay for a product or service, I want to now be the customer and I want to be in control of my data and have the company cater to me. If, when paying for a Google service, there was some legally relevant things in place that insured I was no longer being tracked and used to generate revenue via third parties I would gladly pay. Probably more than they are charging now, but instead they want to have it both ways which is just not OK with me.

    • @MisterFrog@lemmy.world
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      15 days ago

      “With YouTube Premium, enjoy ad-free access, downloads, and background play on YouTube and YouTube Music.”

      In Australia, if they reneg on this headline promise, doesn’t matter what’s in the fine print, this would be refundable under Australian Consumer Law (not a lawyer).

      What bullshit, and how silly on their part, since it’s just so much more convenient to block ads instead of paying

    • @ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world
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      1910 days ago

      I got the same Sunday banner in the middle of the screen similar to where shorts show up. Never in my life have I watched or cared for American football. Clearly a waste of money for the advertising company since I just closed it by pressing the x same as shorts on desktop.

    • @doughless@lemmy.world
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      610 days ago

      Wait, I haven’t seen ads on YouTube Premium (yet), and I’m just now realizing this could very likely be because Google knows my wife and I don’t watch sports.

    • @datavoid@lemmy.ml
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      910 days ago

      At least a subscription includes YouTube music? Isn’t that interesting and relevant.

      • @rumba@lemmy.zip
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        210 days ago

        I would cancel that subscription SOOO FAST.

        I’d argue that YTMusic is a superior product to YT, but both put together aren’t worth anywhere near the cost. You can get a premium TV/Movie service for that price with family access.

      • @alphabethunter@lemmy.world
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        810 days ago

        That part of the support email almost made me puke of how fucking awful it was. “Why complain about ads when you get YouTube Music for free by paying us money”

    • @mlen
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      3511 days ago

      ublock is cheaper and actually works