The reason YouTube makes the ads so unbearably obnoxious is they want people to pay for premium. That's all they're doing is annoying people until they pay. I've been paying for premium since the beginning, I know it's awful, but at least I have never seen any ads.

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Until they pull a Microsoft and start throwing ads into the paid model as well.

Or like all the other streaming platforms that you paid a subscription for to not see ads, but believe it or not you now have ads.

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 8 points 8 months ago

Unfortunately, this is becoming increasingly common. Amazon now also shows ads on the Prime streaming service even though you already pay a subscription fee for it.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

yeah I havent experienced it myself with YouTube, but I have heard some people say they pay for premium and they've started getting ads 😡 YouTube is a huge part of my life and I would be livid if this happened and I don't know what I would do because I don't know how I could live without YT I would love to say that I would abandon YouTube if they pulled this shit on me, but I just can't even imagine my life without YouTube. I don't pay for any other service, no Hulu, no Disney Plus, no HBO blah blah whatever the heck other people are paying for. when I'm craving watching something, I always go to YouTube. And I have several YouTube channels too, so YT is an integral part of my life 😭

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah premium makes 15 dollars per month. Ads for an average viewer makes dozens of cents per month.

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I use Firefox with ublock origin and I don't any ads either.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

yeah I admire all of you who refuse to use the YouTube app and you watch YouTube through a browser, but in my opinion watching YouTube through a browser is clunky and tedious.

[–] Vent@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

ReVanced, NewPipe, SmartTube. You're correct that their mobile browser experience sucks.

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I have ad free YouTube on the YouTube app on Android. Just takes modding the app through a simple guide. Only works on Android though, not iOS IIRC. The tool is Revanced.

Also for Android Smart TVs, check out the TV app called SmartTube Next.

[–] Moneo@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

You realize people watch youtube on computers not just phones right?

[–] TunaCowboy@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

youtube prem + youtube music family plan with 6 total users at $22.99 is pretty reasonable.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I remember when YouTube was free, and ad-free. I've been posting videos to YouTube since 2005. Then a few years later they put a price on it, "Premium" became $9 a month. Something something Pepperidge Farm remembers

And I was grandfathered in at that price even after they raised their prices for everyone else, but then for some reason I got upset and I canceled YouTube but then I couldn't live without it so I subscribed again and they put me back in at the regular price with all the new people 😡

[–] TunaCowboy@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I had the same deal, my comment is in regard to the family plan, which allocates 6 total accounts. I thought $3.83 per person a month was reasonable for the hd music alone, youtube prem was just a plus, but based on other comments I'm apparently a dipshit. 🤷

[–] papertowels@lemmy.one 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No worries they bumped up everyone that had a grandfathered in price after a year or two

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

aah 😭 sad for everyone

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Per year?

[–] sirboozebum@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Per month.

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That’s not good at all.

[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah, it's really expensive.

[–] Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Tbf the only reason I know that YouTube has paid subscriptions is because of threads like this one, so it doesn't seem like they're really pushing their paid service.

Maybe they're only targeting people who, for some reason, don't block ads, and that's why I'm unaware, but they should offer a little more than the things you can get for free already (no ads, downloading) if they want to draw in the adblocker crowd too.

Now people will start to google what's up with all those ads and end up installing uBlock.

[–] Moneo@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They definitely push it. The mobile app has popups advertising it etc.

[–] Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl 2 points 7 months ago

I must be out of touch.

I didn't think I'd need an app to visit YouTube.

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah, at least i got both youtube and music, so far it's worth my money. I'd love to get nebula + a music app but it cost way more.