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I’d pay for YouTube premium if t wasn’t more expensive than HBO. It’s ridiculous. Especially considering YouTube has no production costs. It’s all user-generated content.

Ad blockers are not allowed on YouTube

• ad blockers are not "on youtube", they are on my devices

• allowed by whom?

• fuck you

Dear Youtube: Bring back the downvote count, allow me to disable shorts, allow me to disable your bullshit annoying ass startup music, then half the price and then we'll talk about paying for your "service".

ublock origin users:

I am paying for YouTube Premium, and yet I still have to skip over US-exclusive sponsor sections which almost every Youtuber has nowadays…

Ah YouTube, the site where I watch a video that tells me in ten minutes what I could read in one. And only 5 advertisements!

Oops, six. I forgot the ad the creator slipped in between minute 1 and 2.

and this is why you should use third party clients/patches like revanced

fuck YouTube premium. why would I pay £19.99 a month when literally the only defining feature for me is no ads. all this will do is allow for more complex ad blockers to be made to bypass this

There is something fundamentally wrong with a service that shows more ads than content.

I just got my first 30 second UNSKIPPABLE ad on my TV the other day...I closed youtube, as watching a 1min video is NOT worth 30 seconds of ads

Up next: An AI-enabled Web Browser extension which

• mutes the YouTube ads and overlays it with cute cat videos
• clicks the "skip" button for you

"While the duration of this timer isn't revealed, we expect it to be somewhere around 30 to 60 seconds."

Peak journalism.

The really annoying part is YouTube gets all their content for free, while every other subscription video service pays for content.

The worst part of YouTube ads is super long ads (sometimes even multiple hours long). It has happened to me multiple times. And coincidentally it always happens when I'm feeling sleepy.

Here is a screenshot.

Man, all these companies just pushing me away from using their services. I don't need it.

This is one of these problem with multiple unsolvable issues:

• people are used to ad block and won't change
• the price is too high for part of the population (-> ad block for part of them)
• $1/month, $10/year would attract new paid account but not that much
• people can't afford/don't want a subscription everything
• users don't see any value in it
• a fraction of the paid will go ad block with the price increase
• people will circumvent the ad block block
• capitalism
• ...

Next they will detect if you mute the tab and go to another one to wait the ad out.

I actually don't have a problem paying for online services. I host my own email, I pay for Kagi search and I do monthly donations to Mozilla and Wikipedia. What I have an issue with is services that start out as advertisement based and then introduce paid plans, because now you still have all these shitty mechanics just for driving up engagement which results in unhealthy incentives for content creators and rabbit holes. I want a service that is for YouTube what Kagi is to Google Search. But perhaps that model is too difficult to monetize, I don't know.

NewPipe, and YouTube Revanced are great apps you can use on mobile. They aren't attached to any Google account so you can just use them and skip adds all day without getting any account theoretically banned.

For those who continue to use YouTube and adblockers on PC, simply just make a new throwaway Google account. In the case that they aren't actually bluffing (they are) then at least your temp account will be banned.

Dear YouTube,

Go fuck yourselves.

Sincerely, the 1% of people who actually use adblockers happily.