Today usually you are paying for the product while being the product at the same time (example: ads in smartphones, Windows).
It's been that way for ages. I was genuinely shocked as a child when I learnt people who paid for satellite TV still got ads, but apparently this is normal and nobody else seemed bothered. Who can blame them for double dipping when nobody cares?
Also, basically all Prime services.
If you are paying for a product you are still the product. Google still tracks and monetizes your data.
Yes, the above is wildly outdated.
In 2024, human data is the only product.
The solution isn’t to pay YouTube either
It might be coming soon... they've rolled out this terrible screen saver functionality to premium users (sans ads for now).
Don't you still dislike the in content promotional segments?
I can easily skip it
Pay for premium. On my work machine, I don't co-mingle my personal accounts. it is impossible to watch lectures with the amount of ads.
This a cliche of the same magnitude as wealth trickling down. You can still be a product, while paying for the product.