I saw today new “merch” section below comments. I’m a premium users for a reason, I want 0 ads.

I just canceled my subscription and moved to yattee / invidious for good.

  • hightrix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    235·
    1 year ago

    An ad is an ad. If YouTube premium’s point is to remove ads then this should be included. Otherwise what’s the point? We should all just go back to using ad blockers.

    We should not pay for content twice. Viewing ads is paying for content. Paying for premium is paying for content.

    • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      You’re not paying for content by seeing ads for YouTuber’s stores. That’s supplementary income for the YouTuber that doesn’t involve YTs revenues whatsoever.

    • a4ng3l@lemmy.worldEnglish
      817·
      1 year ago

      It’s less ads and more your youtuber’s shop… you pay YouTube premium to get rid of their ads but you don’t pay your content creator… maybe if there was a subscription patreon-like it would be equivalent.

      • Alien Nathan EdwardEnglish
        151·
        1 year ago

        it’s an ad for the shop. i paid for no ads. i didn’t pay for “no ads except those we think you’d like to see”, i paid for no ads.

      • Ziglin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        YouTube spends some of the money you pay for premium on the content creator, more than just user who watches ads, the only reason I would consider using premium, there will always be a way to block ads without spending money unless it’s moved Serverside and you have to wait the length of instead.

        Edit: The content creator can also just add a link in the end card to their patreon or merch store.

        • a4ng3l@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          1 year ago

          For niche content creators that aren’t in the million of subs what they get isn’t even subsistence money… hence their merchs. Those are not ads inserted in the video stream but screen space below the video… easily ignored especially compared to actual ads.