Ask HN: Will YouTube Premium subscribers ever be forced to watch ads?

I'm especially interested in the opinions of people who have recently paid the extortion fee. Will you be upgrading your subscription when they introduce YouTube Ultra with some small quality of life features, or will you wait until they start showing you ads again?

You've already proven to them that you're willing to cave. They have no incentive to keep the price of your subscription at its current level, nor to keep it free of ads.

Not only that, but they have more of an incentive to bump the price once they've extracted the most value out of their captive audience as they could. At a certain point they'll flatline against the more strong willed of us who will never collapse, and they'll just give up on us and start squeezing the people who already demonstrated a willingness to pay whatever Google demands.

So by subscribing to Premium, you've contributed a little bit toward that maximum, and done your part toward bringing the introduction of YouTube Ultra even closer...