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I just pay for YT Premium. I’m genuinely curious why that option is so controversial? Happy to get people’s thoughts. So I never see any ads and I feel like I get enough value for what I pay. It even helps me skip in-content ads with a single click.
I just pay for YT Premium. I’m genuinely curious why that option is so controversial? Happy to get people’s thoughts. So I never see any ads and I feel like I get enough value for what I pay. It even helps me skip in-content ads with a single click.
YT Premium is my favorite monthly subscription - probably the highest value software that I pay for.
I would be happy to pay even more for an experience without AI slop masquerading as something else, and obviously fake or misleading news sources.
If Youtube or Meta spent a fraction of the effort identifying credibility as they do predicting user likes, they could do a passable job. I would especially like credible sources that express coherent viewpoints less correlated with mine.
Perhaps even a quality setting or settings so i could set my own thresholds of credible information and non-trivial entertainment.
Premium Quality Tier. Ad and Shit Free.
Like a beautiful statue in a simple block of marble, it is in there.
I just pay for YT Premium. I’m genuinely curious why that option is so controversial? Happy to get people’s thoughts. So I never see any ads and I feel like I get enough value for what I pay. It even helps me skip in-content ads with a single click.
What minor controversy I have seen is a small minority that argue either 1. You shouldn't pay for YT Premium because it enables user-hostile business practices or 2. You shouldn't use ad-block because it's effectively "stealing."
[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/MANIFESTO.md
google is seeing an uptick in viewing with a smartTV, so they think that means family time in the livingroom, thus 70s style TV is the model of the day. have they considered home office, phones are just too small, and studios where you watch the screen and perform the "how too" from across the room are getting to be a thing [mancaves, shesheds]. i would definately have a curated, edited feed of YTz to a group viewing…
Since 1999 we've had the DVR and commercials have been effectively skippable if you want to avoid them. This is worse than that. Not having the freedom and control to seek through the video stream ("unskippable") was innovated by the streaming takeover.
it was a cat and mouse game eventually with programs being salted to spoof ad detection, regulations requireing a broadcaster to have some demarcation between ad and program, and on...
streaming has one fatal flaw, that decides final ownership, and that is eventually, the content is in the clear, in a space accessible to a technichal user, that can be replicated, and fitted with the requirements for a persistent file, and thus "pwnd".
at this point the ad can be snipped out, and is gone.
its a bad model, ads should be part of the content, depictions of product usage, and consumption, as part of the content seemed like an unobtrusive, actually pleasant association, every time ive seen it done, vs some screaming loud volume, shocking switch of subject and mood associated with a product that you dont need, and will subconsciously avoid as a result of the operant conditioning.
Has anyone ever actually purchased anything because you saw an ad for it?
If you're asking whether advertising works, there is plenty of science making clear that it does, without fishing for anecdata. As to whether every company buying ads is making a good investment, mileage may vary - but the blunt answer to your question is that yes, people do purchase things because they saw ads for it, the advertising economy is well understood. Companies like Google whose fortunes rest almost entire…
Funded, ran, and interpreted by whom?
I can't remember the last time I bought anything just because of its ad, that I already did not know about or was going to buy anyway, nor I know anyone who did.
In fact, if I see an ad TOO often, it permanently turns me off the product or service.
The whole ads racket seems like a case of an emperor with no clothes at best, and a thin veil for mass surveillance at worst.
I just pay for YT Premium. I’m genuinely curious why that option is so controversial? Happy to get people’s thoughts. So I never see any ads and I feel like I get enough value for what I pay. It even helps me skip in-content ads with a single click.
Where did you get the impression that it's controversial to pay for YT Premium? Most threads I've seen on this topic are composed of roughly half of the comments endorsing YT Premium, while the other half endorse adblocking from a privacy/autonomy perspective similar to the opening paragraph of the uBlock Origin manifesto [1]. What minor controversy I have seen is a small minority that argue either 1. You shouldn't p…
I just pay for YT Premium. I’m genuinely curious why that option is so controversial? Happy to get people’s thoughts. So I never see any ads and I feel like I get enough value for what I pay. It even helps me skip in-content ads with a single click.
Has anyone ever actually purchased anything because you saw an ad for it?
Does anyone have a good study as to how much advertising is too much advertising? There are some content creators on YouTube I enjoy watching but it's an ad every five minutes and it just ruins it all. For some, I've reached the point where I don't bother watching anymore because the ads are just too much. I sympathize with creators wishing to make money, but ... it's just becoming relentless. I'd love to see a study…
Ads are a toxic weight on everyone who views them.
I use ad-blocking as much as possible, along with things like SponsorBlock to skip such content within the video itself.