• JigglySackles@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    And this is why i,won’t start paying them money. They will never be content and will just keep pushing ads further and further.

  • Tuxman@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    If it’s true and I get ads on my Premium (which… to be fair I’m not paying full price anyway 😅), it may be the last push I needed to finally start reading books again…

    • spicystraw@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Hey, so I canceled my YouTube Premium subscription a couple of months back and decided to pick up reading instead. It’s a different kind of entertainment, but I’m actually really enjoying it. I’ve been finding some really great books, and I’m finding it just as hard to put them down as I used to find it hard to stop binge-watching my favorite channels.

  • nek0d3r@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    A few years ago I got this experience on mobile and posted about it on r/assholedesign, but it was autoremoved as a banned repost even though I didn’t see anything like it. Yet another ban happy subreddit, I’m glad to be out of that place. This is truly awful though, and why I’m happy to use revanced.

  • RagingRobot@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I have premium too once I saw an ad and complained and it turned out to be a bug. I even had engineers reach out with questions when they were fixing the issue.

    Maybe that has happened here? They have announced any changes.

  • emrsmsrli@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    lol here we are, just after a few weeks when people were defending how yt premium was the best subscription plan ever on Lemmy. people deserve to be scammed like this tbh

  • Kilometers_OBrien@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    10 months ago

    If I’m paying monthly for a service without ads and I see a single (1) advertisement, I should at least get a month of free subscription because the other party is in breach of contract.

  • helloyanis@jlai.luFrançais
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    10 months ago

    For everyone on Android, you can just patch the youtube app using ReVanced, which will remove ads, add sponsorblock, allow you to hide shorts and the “People also watched” sections. It can be pretty tricky to patch if you don’t know what you’re doing so feel free to tell me if you run into any issues. If you don’t care about the algorithm and your feed, you can get the third-party client NewPipe, it’s FOSS but sometimes crashes while reading some videos. Pick one!

    • Hadriscus@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      I don’t think I’ve ever had NP crash. What do you mean by “some videos”?

    • ziggurat@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      I use gray Jay instead, it has become really good the last wave of updates. Wife is on revanced, I’ll change her over if gray jay adds shorts.

      There is still a few paper cut issues with it, but over all I prefer gray jay over the official YouTube app.

    • Sippy Cup@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      It’s a bug with the android app.

      I’ve seen it maybe 3 times in 8ish years on my phone. Never once in the TV app.

    • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
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      10 months ago

      Damn I just have ublock origin, so I never get ads and I don’t pay a cent. Hope your premium membership works out for you tho

      • bitwolf@lemmy.one
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        10 months ago

        Thanks, I’m still grandfathered in at the beta price, but I mainly use it for discovering music to add to my Plex collection. The free YouTube is a bonus for me.

        I know it’s temporary, I’ll probably cancel when Im asked to pay full price

        • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          10 months ago

          I didn’t realize that they still had grandfather’s subscriptions, I was the same where I got it at a lower price, but they decided that they weren’t going to honor that price 2 years ago and raised it anyway. I’ve told myself I’m dropping the sub if it goes up again because honestly it’s current price is a little outrageous. But I watch over a thousand hours of YouTube a year so therefore it’s worth it to me.

          • bitwolf@lemmy.one
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            10 months ago

            The thing is I don’t think I’m supposed to be. They said they’d terminate it so I’m just grateful for the borrowed time I have.

            I’ve been subscribed since the minute GPM launched the beta.

    • woelkchen@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      I get ads on premium sometimes. I think it’s a fluke but def unacceptable

      That’s among the reasons why even with premium an ad blocker is required.

  • e$tGyr#J2pqM8v@feddit.nl
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    10 months ago

    I thought they didn’t target children with their ads. Did I imagine that or is a barbie a product aimed at adults in Germany?

    • weker01@sh.itjust.works
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      10 months ago

      That was something that gets discussed now and then in politics but no. We have a lot of ads targeted to children.

  • M137@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    If you’re dumb enough to pay for youtube premium and also can’t spell “ads” correctly you deserve to have them shoved in your face, you’re probably dumb enough to fall for them and buy the crap being advertised too.