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Comment by UncleMeat | Hacker News Reader

For years and years and years people have said "just let me pay to turn off ads." YTP is right there.

There's one detail that discussions tend to ignore when talking about ads and YTP.

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Now back to out comment: paying for YTP doesn't turn off all ads. Nor tracking, for that matter.

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Find better creators. They are the ones making the content, after all.

Very odd to blame the platform for this.

I don't know if in-video ads are a mark of a bad creator. It seems like it's one of the only ways to make money on YT if your primary product is videos (as opposed to having a larger brand, product, merchandise, etc).

So you can blame the platform for showing ads and pocketing the profit... Although I wouldn't off-hand, I don't know what the profits are, and YT has historically been operating at a loss afaik.

You can forward through sponsored segments.

Or, maybe vote with your viewership and don't watch content creators that have sponsored segments.

Or I could automate the process via extensions like SponsorBlock.

I've added the idea with the ad insertion to my Moleskin, as they said in Russia 15 years ago.

SponsorBlock

Epic

Anyone who knows the history of cable TV (or today's streaming services for that matter) will know that paying to turn off ads is great, until Google gets entrenched enough that they can put ads back in for paying subscribers.

> until Google gets entrenched enough that they can put ads back in for paying subscribers.

I keep seeing this repeated, and this has never been a valid argument, even if this may end up being true.

You can cancel when that happens.

But then there's no value in Premium, how could they sell it then?

My issue is not about "paying for ads". My issue is the tracking, collection of data, and selling to anyone that will buy.

It is funny how even in the 'premium' package data collection remains as is.

I have YTP but when I installed the app on my iPhone, they still served me Ads. I don’t see ads if I use chrome to browse to YT. Or on my desktop.

Does anyone else experience this?

I refuse to let them associate my video history to an easily-trackable account.

I know YTP is YouTube Premium, but I keep reading YouTube poop.

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