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These bug me so much. Those 20+ minute ads do nothing but piss me off. I have to grab the remote or switch tabs or whatever to get past them. To the point where
by sethops1 5d ago
These bug me so much. Those 20+ minute ads do nothing but piss me off. I have to grab the remote or switch tabs or whatever to get past them. To the point where I'm on the verge of adding YT to the permanent block list along with Facebook, Instagram, X, etc.
- xp84 5d agoSerious question: Do you watch a lot of YouTube? Why not just cough up the $16 for YouTube Premium? Creators actually do get paid more for Premium users' views than they do from adsense. You get to see none of these ads that piss you off. Look, I run UBlock Origin myself. But that's because there's zero other way to look at any Web content without going insane with videos and other garbage popping all over the place, and even when sites have memberships, I use too many distinct ones anyway, and the memberships may not remove the ads and junk. But when it comes to sites like YouTube that let me choose between "ads" and "non-ads" experiences... I guess I'm just saying I see a ton of ROI on the $16.
- calmworm 5d agoI don’t use YouTube at all but I can still answer - Because $16 will become $20, $30, $50 … and then they will begin to show ads again anyway.
- fragmede 5d agoYou won't pay for something because of inflation? How do you survive, since everything's affected by inflation? Ever buy gasoline for a car or a transit pass? rent? food? What else can't you pay for because they price will go up in the future?
- mitxela 4d agoI don't get this commonplace logic. Why make the decision on the possible distant future? You can always just cancel when that happens.
- calmworm 4d agoThe moment the cost went from free to more-than-free is “when that happened.” I’m not willing to participate.
- mitxela 4d agoYou expect Google to serve thousands of petabytes per month (costing hundreds of thousands of dollars in raw bandwidth) for absolutely nothing in return?
- StilesCrisis 5d agoIt's $29 per month for the family plan now.
- econ 5d agoI want to see and feel the product. Nowadays mostly to see how bad it is.
- dd8601fn 5d agoYouTube’s enshittification is shamelessly out of control. If you really want it, you can vpn through certain countries they don’t show ads at all.