Wait so you pay for premium and still get ads?
this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2025
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I feel like youtube is losing sight of why users are paying for the service then.
To me, personally, youtube is useful enough that I will keep paying to remove ads entirely (in combination with ublock). That being said, there will come a time when the value proposition is no longer balanced. Then I will stop paying, and probably stop using it as well.
But as always with Google, I question whether their motive is to kill another service. They're very competent at that specific thing.
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Revanced, newpipe, grayjay, it's all I need thank you.
Well, I'm still happy that my grandfathered $7.99 plan from the GPM days still holds up, fully ad-free.
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They will always want you to watch more ads. Doesn't matter that you literally pay them not to. Manipulating your purchase habits is more profitable than your subscription is because your tolerance for ads sets the amount they can sell.
I confirm that I will see zero ads.
Oh fuck odd Google. Literally the only reason I was paying for your crap videos is so I could play music on my TV uninterrupted.
Problem solved! I don't need to think about this premium stuff any more. Recently, I've been playing with the idea of paying for premium, but that's no longer the case. Specifically, the family pack is the one that kinda made some limited sense in the past. I can see the kind of game Google is playing, and I'm not planning to participate.
Would you like to pay us and have ads?
get ublock or revanced