Over the past few weeks, some users are posting complaints on Reddit saying they are seeing ads despite being YouTube Premium subscriber.
  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    I’d bet that channel “members” don’t get ads for that channel regardless of premium status.

    IMO, Google made premium, almost nobody bought it. So they went after adblockers, hoping that people would get premium to get rid of the ads. People most just Adblock harder.

    While this is happening, one exec is peering over the fence at twitch. Where they only way to get away from ads without a pretty good Adblock, is to subscribe to the individual creator.

    So they make “memberships” to channels a thing.

    Almost nobody buys that either. So they go… What if, even if someone is premium, we give them ads, unless they’re a channel member.

    Genius.

    Paying to block ads per creator/channel/whatever, is a special level of bullshit that twitch has always had.

    The system is working as expected. The companies are trying to find the best way to extract the most value from you using their platform.

  • misk@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    This looks like either a bug in the platform or people with Premium Lite. The article made no attempt at investigating this because all they did was to reprint complaints from anonymous people on Reddit. Customer support offering boilerplate reply about why someone is seeing ads sounds like par for the course here because it’s all either LLM chatbots or people in third world countries who couldn’t care less.

  • qualia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    Or sometimes it doesn’t let me play YouTube in a minimized floating way. Seems to be if I’ve been going back and forth between horizontal and vertical vids. Both normally allow floating minimized play but something about how they interact often leads me to having to force close the app, which loses me the custom queue I’ve been constructing. If the official solution is buggy…

  • Drathro@dormi.zoneEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    Grayjay on Android has been working damn near flawlessly for me. No clue if the parent company is to be trusted at this point or not- but I cannot argue with the results.

    • AstralPath@lemmy.caEnglish
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      11 hours ago

      Were you able to import your subscriptions? I haven’t been able to and that’s all that’s keeping me on Premium

    • BossDj@lemm.eeEnglish
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      16 hours ago

      I’d never heard of FUTO. It’s been around for a year and I can find so little information.

      • datavoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        11 hours ago

        I know Louis Rossman is involved. I don’t agree with some of his views, but as far as tech freedom goes he seems to have the right idea.

  • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    It is just YT testing new exciting features, nothing to worry about.

  • YogurtDoes@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    Yeah I stopped paying for premium once I’d figured out using Safari on my phone with an ad blocker works with YouTube still lol

      • drake@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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        16 hours ago

        If you use iOS devices for watching YouTube, look into side-loading uYou+, it’s basically an edited YouTube app that removes most of the ads. You can stream from your phone to the apple TV, too, also without ads. You don’t need a jailbroken phone or anything like that.

  • blindbunny@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    This is why I stopped paying them. Fuck them, you’re just an source of income to them.