• rozodru@piefed.world
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    2 days ago

    there’s no point. I tried the free trial of youtube premium cause i’m on Qutebrowser and the adblocking isn’t the greatest. even with Premium i’d still randomly get ads every now and then. IF i were paying for it I’d be pissed.

    Now I circumvent this by just opening all the videos in MPV.

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      2 days ago

      I’ve never gotten an ad with premium. Been subscribed for about 5 years.

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      2 days ago

      With respect, I don’t believe you. I paid for Premium for half a decade and never saw a single ad. I stopped my sub and will advise people against it going forward, but your claim is highly suspect to me.

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        20 hours ago

        my folks pay for premium, and i have to sit through constant tide or liberty mutual commercials surrounding every video when i visit. i asked why they pay for premium and they say it’s worse without it

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              18 hours ago

              A cheaper tier than Premium that offers fewer features. Along with this, there’s still some ads.

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                  18 hours ago

                  I actually think there is some value in the way YT is trying to do it versus other streamer sites. Most are not available to you at all for free, even with ads. And then you can pay, but get ads, or you can pay more to get no ads (or still get some, in the case of like Prime Video that serves ads for their own shows but don’t call those ads for some reason).

                  This is not a recommendation for it, to be clear.

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        2 days ago

        I didn’t say it was constant. I only said every now and again on the free trial I’d get an ad. Maybe it’s because I only used it with Qutebrowser. I don’t know. but I know that sometimes I would get an ad on a video.