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I'm paying for YouTube Premium and I fully expect them to do the same thing once they've squeezed the lemon dry and need to find more money in this perverse game of rentier capitalism.

>>kitsun+(OP)
Step 0: Have a crappy ad ridden platform

Step 1: Create an ad free "premium" experience for a price

Step 2: Raise prices

Step 3: Create a cheaper tier which is "ad supported"

>>kitsun+(OP)
Ut premium is already rotten with ads. Every goddamn popular video is either brought to you by nordvpn, ridge wallet or a goddamn ballsack shaver. It's sickening tbh.

I've gotten really good at tapping the skip-forward-10-seconds button a couple of times whenever the ad comes up.

The only creator where I don't do that is Acerola, because he puts a video of him playing with his cat in a pip view during his ad. I can zone out for the ad and enjoy the cat video instead. Win-win

>>beAbU+y1
Haha yes! This is the problem with YouTube premium. It's not ad free at all :(

I'm so glad people have made sponsorblock

>>xmprt+U
But are any of the steps: profit? Serious question for those in the know.

>>beAbU+y1
Try out Sponsorblock [0]. It skips sponsored content in YouTube videos.

[0] https://sponsor.ajay.app/

>>beAbU+y1
Seems like YouTube shouldn’t allow this. Like they should require creators to timestamp their sponsorship segments so they auto skip for premium subscribers. That way Google can get a cut of the pie by directing their premium subscribers eyes to other types of ads or something.

>>TheAce+w5
Im mostly on mobile and google tv. All the 3rd party youtube apps kept breaking on me, so at some point I just gave up and embraced the suck.