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You know, if YouTube wouldn't insist on absolutely annoying the living shit out of me with unskippable, bad, long, and frequent ads I wouldn't mind that much. But YouTube with ads is one of the worst things there are.

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There are no ads if you pay

Until there are. You're crazy if you trust Google to not change this down the road.

They charge monthly. You can cancel.

You pay for the service that they offer now. If they add ads later on you can quit. Not paying now because of something they could do in the future doesn’t make any sense.

It's not fair because they became a monopoly by offering a free service. Now they can ask whatever they want.

There's a lot of small prints for Youtube Premium.

Imagine paying for an ostensibly free service. It's like getting mugged and then offering to give the mugger even more money. Whose fault is it that YouTube isn't charging enough to cover hosting costs?

I find the service valuable, so I'm happy to pay for it. I don't understand the opposition. If you don't want to pay, they offer an ad-supported version.

keep in mind that several videos do have sponsored segments so again you can't get away from that without sponsorblock

That's not true at all. There are many advertisements/sponsorships within large YouTube creator channels now. It's regularly 1min or more in every 10min of video. I don't mind so much, because they are skippable and since it's the creators themselves rather than totally unrelated garbage.

SponsorBlock is the answer.

I don't think those in-content sponsorships are what this is about?

I'd love to understand the downvote venom, but what what do you call in-content sponsorships after you've paid for YouTubeRed, if not ads?

Are they not advertisements for products? Or ads only count, if they're auctioned words from Google? What's the new definition.

They're not ads that are controlled by Google/YouTube, so I guess I'm able to view them as pragmatically different. They also don't bother me much because they're generally presented by the content creator that I'm interested in watching, rather than being completely unrelated.

I don't like being bullied into a subscription by out of line ads. The subscription doesn't add any value. YouTube still fails to create a viable business model that doesn't depend on bullying.

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