• pemptago@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    But if you pay for YouTube premium you won’t have ads… for the first couple of years until they corner the market, and change the terms of services several times to maximize profits. uBlock and donating to open source FTW. shout out to yt-dlp

    • bamfic@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Jeez I’m old enough to remember paying to go to the theater so I could watch a movie without commercials

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      2 months ago

      This is exactly it.

      Cable TV was originally meant to be TV with no ads, see where that has come.

      Streaming services were meant to be on demand shows/movies with no ads, see where we are now.

      YouTube premium will enshittify the exact same way. How do I know this? They already won’t listen to paying customers and content creators who bring customer to the site. They do customer unfriendly moves like removing dislikes to make a quick buck from big corporations. They will make it shittier given the chance.

    • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      Also ad lock blocks ads on all of the platforms you use. YouTube plus just removed them from YouTube… I ain’t paying 20 different places for ad free use when they charge like $15+ each, maybe if it were $1 each for nah they are all greedy.