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Corporations are not your Friends: A Story in Two Parts (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

The moment I get ads in my Youtube Premium, it's done with Youtube Premium, and done with Youtube.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

...or else it gets the hose again???

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Nah, that'd be a waste of water. Not a lot of skin on Youtube, no lotion needed either.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

I don't think I specifically posted about it on lemmy but yeah, I also concluded youtube would be going further 'pay to win' around this time 2 years ago.

Twitch will keep getting more and more monetized / ad heavy as well, until it just gets shutdown.

I'll be amazed if it still exists by the end of 2026.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

The guy who took this screenshot and posted it to Reddit likely has Premium Lite, which still shows ads on music videos. The title of the video is probably cut out to hide it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

I think you are right. And the OP look like they are in Germany where they are testing these plans. https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/17/24272930/youtube-cheaper-premium-lite-subscription-limited-ads

[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Premium Lite is hilarious branding. "Oh, it's high quality, but like, less. Quality Lite"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

It's like when they sell a medium pizza but no small. Bitch, you can't have "medium" if you don't have a small and large to compare it to!

Actually I don't know if it's like that at all...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

"All animals are born equal, but some are born more equal than others"

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

Worse experience than with just ublock origin AND you get to pay for it. Imagine being this much of a sucker

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[–] Lightrider 18 points 2 days ago

Fuckingcapitalists

[–] [email protected] 60 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (7 children)

Premium+ coming in 2026 for truly ad-free experience. Premium++ coming in 2028 for truly truly ad-free experience. Premium+++ coming in 2030 for truly truly truly ad-free experience.

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[–] [email protected] 137 points 3 days ago (26 children)

Alright where are all the YouTube premium apologetics that keep appearing everytime someone discusses any sort of Ad-blocker?! What do you guys have to say now?!

[–] [email protected] 84 points 3 days ago (4 children)

No ads so far here but I definitely will cancel Premium if I start seeing ads. That’s literally the only thing I’m paying for.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Same. No ads yet but will cancel and delete if they start showing up.

Been slowly moving over to Nebula anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (8 children)

A story in three parts: get an adblocker, problem solved

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Better: quit youtube premium, get an adblocker and live life hassle free

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Best: Download it with Jdownloader, pay for the bandwidth once, build a library.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Never heard of Jdownloader, does it offer any benefits over yt-dlp?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Don't know, I haven't used YTD in a long while.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Why would you pay for YouTube and then get an ad blocker? Seems redundant.

Also, YouTube has begun integrating ads server side, making them more difficult to parse out.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don’t have premium I just have an ad blocker

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Smart

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"You've got to support the creators"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I spend so much money on Patreon and I never regret a penny of it

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[–] [email protected] 155 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Everyone knows you need to pay for YouTube Premium-Pro-Plus if you don't want to see ads. Only 69.99 per ~~month~~ week.

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I heard tell from a Gen Xer who said cable TV used to not have ads.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Our national tv channel is lawfully barred from running commercials.

They just changed the definition of ads they run to "messages of commercial importance" or some dumb shit like that. And just like that, ads on the national channel are suddenly a-ok

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

PBS here has ads. They are short, but there are ads nonetheless. This is over and above the ads for their own shows that will be on the channel at a later date.