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  • Mandy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    4 days ago

    just like with the adtier plan
    I honestly dont get the incentive for the customer, even less with youtube, what do i get as a person for paying and still seeing ads? wasnt that the entire dang point?

  • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    384·
    10 days ago

    There is a lower price tier of Youtube premium being tested in Europe right now that has ads, but still gives offline viewing and youtube music. This is what that is for. People who are seeing ads know exactly why they are seeing ads; because they signed up for a plan with ads. The regular plan at the regular price is still ad free.

    • whaleross@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      10 days ago

      The literal opposite of what people¹ want then. Give me back the €5 no ads, no yt music and no off app viewing and I will consider enabling the app and remove the YouTube adblockers in my browser.

      ¹ People as in me. I am at least one people.

  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    9·
    10 days ago

    This is apparently from an ad-supported tier being trialled in EU and not them sneaking ads into an ad free tier. Read comments below for more context.

    This thread was reported for being misleading but I’m going to leave it up for the context.

  • Pasta Dental@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    73·
    10 days ago

    The only reason that I (and I suspect many many other people) pay for it is because of the value proposition of not having ads on Youtube + Youtube Music for slightly more than Spotify. They better be careful about their subscriptions because their service is also available for free. If I feel like im being ripped off, instead of them getting 12$ a month they will get 0$ and I will still get to use the service. It’s different from Netflix in that in their case there is no free tier to go back to.

      • krimson@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        10 days ago

        I’m amazed it still works that well to be honest. Have it on Firefox on my phone as well 👌🏼

        • The summer blues...@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          10 days ago

          I used to with vanced because I wanted background play. Originally I pirated because I didn’t agree with PAYING for a feature that is free on desktop and was free on mobile until Google deliberately disabled it. Then Vanced stopped working because, you know, and revanced just didn’t work for me. Revanced worked for boost for reddit after, well, you know, but not YouTube. So I actually eventually I started paying to have no ads and it turns out the other features like the not-really-sponsorblock and queuing are pretty useful. And I don’t use Netflix or the others (I don’t watch TV) so being a YouTube power user justified paying. I don’t mind paying. But if they do show ads (I read the context) on standard premium I’m not paying.

  • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    10 days ago

    I’m always so appalled and offended when I go on YouTube and there’s a 60 and even 90 second and. Wtf year so you think this is YouTube? I’m not watching 60 seconds of ass. Funny thing is if I keep pressing back and play, after 2 or 3 times it goes down to a 5 second ad, so I at least know how to bypass those long ones

  • Pfeffy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    10 days ago

    I have grandfathered in YouTube premium from like 10 years ago because of a business cell phone promotion deal. I have not seen a single ad yet.

    • bokherif@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 days ago

      This is something new they’re testing primarily in EU. There are plans to separate the premium into tiers and one tier will have ads. Even in the US, there are currently ads in your home feed such as product placement videos. When I contacted support about this, they told me they knew they were ads, it’s just that it does not interfere with watching videos. Disgusting fucking company.