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My Ask HN from 2020: "Are YouTube ads getting worse?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23769291

I didn't always block ads on YouTube, but they pushed me to it. And apparently enough people for them to do this. There still isn't enough on there to make it worth subscribing for me. ~$170/year is not a small amount of money.

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I've been paying since Youtube Red, and I'm almost to the point where it's not worth it anymore. The price has gotten really high, and so much of the content I watch has ads baked into it by the creator, so I still mostly have to watch ads. Youtube's aggressive demonetization of viewpoints they don't like is really leading to a bad UX and is near the tipping point for me.

SponsorBlock is a wonderful tool. I use uBlock origin and have not seen an ad for a long time, perhaps years with one or two exceptions.

Wasn't the Red subscription price supposed to be locked to something like $7. Was that ever a thing?

If Google ever made a promise, I would weigh it as highly as their confidence in every slick video announcing a new chat app.

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