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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'll be curious to see where this ends up going, as I doubt the community will take this lying down.

The few times I've had to go without an Ad blocker, I've seen just how bad the Ads have gotten - they're almost the same as regular TV Ad breaks now! ... And then YouTube Premium is just not a good deal in my eyes, £12.99 a month is an awful lot to pay just to not see Ads.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ads will probably stop me from watching YouTube completely. The huge surge of ads at some point was what stopped me from using Instagram.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unstoppable ads are what stopped m from using twitch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The occasional times I need to use Twitch I either VPN to Romania or use S0undTV.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The majority of of people using it will most definitely take it lying down as they're most likely not tech savvy enough to install a browser extension on a laptop if the only thing on the page was a large red install button.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's why I specified the community, as in the more tech savy folks that would care about this, because I know that the wider public is surprisingly tech illiterate

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And then YouTube Premium is just not a good deal in my eyes, £12.99 a month is an awful lot to pay just to not see Ads.

I think this includes YouTube music (at least in my market it does) which makes it fairly good value for money if you already subscribe to a music streaming app.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, bundling. I thought societies were pleased to get rid of cable bundling, why is it coming back?