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It's wild to me how much Youtube TV costs and yet they still serve you tons of ads. Coming from youtube premium where occasionally I have to skip through a pre
by ylhert 3y ago
It's wild to me how much Youtube TV costs and yet they still serve you tons of ads. Coming from youtube premium where occasionally I have to skip through a preroll ad, I forget how much you are bombarded with ads while watching traditional TV. The fact that you have to pay the princely sum of $73/month on top of that boggles my mind. I canceled when they raised the price from $35/month and I'll never go back at these prices...
- jjoonathan 3y agoYou won't have to go back, youtube premium will bring the enshitification to your door over the coming decade or so.
- colechristensen 3y agoYup, cable TV is ridiculous. Streaming, however, is doing just fine catching up with costs and playing with "ad supported" pricing levels which is only expected to spread. We're in the "eternal September" of streaming, it's only going to get worse from here.
- daveidol 3y ago> youtube premium where occasionally I have to skip through a preroll ad I thought YouTube Premium was ad-free?
- banana_giraffe 3y agoIt's free of ads from YouTube. Plenty of videos have baked in ads from the content creators themselves.
- _boffin_ 3y agoCheck out SponsorBlock.
- moelf 3y agothat's why https://sponsor.ajay.app/ https://sponsor.ajay.app/ exists
- lapetitejort 3y agoIf you dislike them, check out the SponsorBlock extension, which will skip in-video ads. While you're at it, also get DeArrow, which chooses a random frame as the thumbnail and allows community written titles that accurately describe the videos.
- xdennis 3y agoBut at that point why not block all ads without paying? (That's what I do.)
- pertique 3y agoI think you and the comment you replied to are talking about different things. The comment you replied to IS talking about skipping these inline ads without paying (SponsorBlock). If you aren't using it and are watching the same videos, you're also seeing these ads.
- squeaky-clean 3y agoxdennis is asking why bother paying for premium if you still need to use sponsorblock. Why not just use sponsorblock + (uBlock Origin, or yt-dl, or etc) to remove both forms of ads for free.
- Moldoteck 3y agoToo bad sponsorblock will not work on tv((
- pmarreck 3y agoI don’t actually mind those, because at least you can skip past them manually; if they stop allowing THAT, though, THEN…
- duped 3y agoPretty much every streaming service with a "no ads" tier does this. I agree it's infuriating.
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- Aurornis 3y agoParent comment was comparing YouTube TV to YouTube Premium. Two different products. YouTube Premium removes the YouTube-inserted ads. YouTube TV is a different product. It tries to compete with cable and satellite TV (which also serve ads despite hefty monthly fees)
- secondcoming 3y agoYou still endured ads with YT Premium!? That's shocking if true.
- FanaHOVA 3y agoHe just means promos by creators, not YT ads.
- solardev 3y agoFWIW https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-youtube/mnjggcdmjocbbbhaepdhchncahnbgone https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-y... is a crowdsourced way to skip past promos (by timestamp). Or some creators have moved to Nebula, which seems to have less of that crap but IMO a worse UI than YouTube.
- IntelMiner 3y agoWhile I like Nebula on premise, it seems creators on it are getting 'lazier' and some of the people on the site are downright questionable ("TL;DR News" and "Therapist Reacts" being the biggest offenders for me) Like, why am I paying Nebula for this garbage? https://i.imgur.com/itiLYbK.png https://i.imgur.com/itiLYbK.png
- verall 3y agoI think Little Joel is a treasure, personally He still does long-form well-researched videos if you're into that, too
- ravetcofx 3y agoYeah don't be dunking on little joel. He's
- Theizestooke 3y agoWhat is questionable about TLDR News?
- KittenInABox 3y agoAre you unfamiliar with Little Joel? Big Joel has actual deep analysis if you like, but Little Joel is just a silly side channel of his. You're paying for this, plus also multi-hour-long analysis of, say, media analysis contrasting with the role of Jewish people who were coerced to cooperate with the Nazis in concentration camps. Nebula is meant to serve a variety of videos. I'd probably feel the same of "I have to watch ads for this crap?" for YouTube, y'know?
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- paxys 3y agoCompare it with a cable subscription, not YouTube Premium.
- squeaky-clean 3y agoJust because lots of people seem to be getting confused, "pre-roll ad" isn't the right term for this. Pre-roll is one of those ads YouTube forces you to watch 5-30 seconds of before you can skip it, and when they play before the video starts. Mid-roll ads are the same thing, but interrupting the middle of the video. And Post-roll are ones that play after the video is over. What you're referring to are usually called sponsored segments. They're ads, but they're just a part of the video file you're being served. They're not dynamically targeted or cycled out. So if a LTT video is sponsored by ASUS, every viewer will see the same sponsored bit about ASUS because as far as youtube knows, it's a genuine part of your video, not a slot for an ad bid. They're still annoying, but it's not a pre-roll ad. You don't get those with Premium.
- GenerocUsername 3y agoHopefully OP understands this, but I can confirm folks like my parents do not distinguish the difference. It's mind boggling
- mk89 3y agoThat's an implementation detail leak: for the end user it's just an advertisement. Call it as you want, but when I pay premium and you write "no ads" I want no ads. That's it. I don't care that the content provider found a way to show ads. I have a contract with you - you have to figure it out.
- mk89 3y agoAh right, I forgot: they don't want to do content moderation, because then they become gatekeepers etc. They just want our money. Twice.
- squeaky-clean 3y agoYoutube doesn't get any money from sponsored segments. It's a direct deal between the channel owner and the sponsor. The only way it gets YouTube additional money is because it lets those channels put out more frequent or higher budget videos, which usually leads to more views.
- giancarlostoro 3y agoI was a Google Music All Access member since day 1 or whatever, they grandfathered me into YouTube Premium ('Red' at the time) and I was okay with that. Then my card expired, they cancelled my Music All Access, and when I re-enabled it, I no longer had YouTube Premium, I had to all of a sudden go out of my way to pay an extra $9 a month for it. I went with Apple Music as soon as I went iPhone and have not bothered to pay Google anymore. All Music Access was amazing, forcing me to YouTube is a poor choice that had they not gone that route I would still be on All Music Access. Apple One is superior in many ways anyway. I rather not be with a company that re-brands existing services then axes them when there's zero need to do so.
- altdataseller 3y agoPlus they always seem to be taking away channels too. Here in NY, they removed SNY. It’s like ok if you’re raising prices, make sure you aren’t taking things away!
- NegativeK 3y agoMy significant other watches sports, so the comparison to YT Premium doesn't count for us. It was either be subjected to ads and pay a lot of money or be subjected to ads and pay a medium-small amount of money. But as someone who has never paid for cable TV before, I agree that it's jarring. Our trick is to only watch things we've marked to be recorded, which allows ad skipping. (On demand and live don't allow skipping. Starting a sportsball game an hour late gives plenty of buffer.)
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- redeeman 3y agoinstall yourself an adblocker and see no ads :)