izzydata a day ago

Youtube premium is still an ad driven business model. They are the ones making the problem worse so they can sell you the solution. The more you pay for Youtube Premium the more incentive they have to make ads worse.

vinyl7 2 days ago

Netflix and other streaming sites have ads on some paid subscriptions. First they start with ad free subs, then introduce ads and introduce a higher priced tier to get rid of ads

  • WrongAssumption 2 days ago

    Can't you just stop subscribing when that happens? You aren't signing a 5 year contract.

  • raincole 2 days ago

    So if one supermarket sold expired food, we should avoid another supermarket that has not been doing that for 10 years? Google/Youtube doesn't own Netflix. If anything, the reasonable response would be to unsub Netflix and sub its competitors, like, uh, Youtube.

    • eviks 2 days ago

      No, if all the big supermarkets sell expired food from time to time to meet profitability expectations, there is no reason to believe one will be so unique as to be able to resist using the same industry standard, especially when it already has a much bigger expired food business

eviks 2 days ago

It has never been ad-free, sponsored segments have always existed

  • arccy a day ago

    you should blame the creators for being greedy, not YouTube for that

    • eviks a day ago

      YT sets the rules of what content is allowed and sets the level of deception in their marketing regarding this "ours vs theirs" distinction in ads, so feel free to blame it as well.