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SymphonicResonance@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I actually didn’t care when there was an ad in the beginning of the video or what not. It was when I had to start watching multiple ads in the middle of a 10 minute video as well. Like come on, not even broadcast TV is that annoying.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 year ago
dan80@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Adding an insane amount of ads is a dark pattern to convince you into joining Youtube Premium. Which is crazy expensive by the way, 13,99 $/month
willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Premium will eventually show ads too.
madcaesar@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Absolutely. Infinite growth demands more and more. Always. Fuck the customer, increase shareholder value this quarter!
Razgriz18@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“Tired of ads? Upgrade to YouTube Premium PLUS to get rid of all ads!”
Acid@startrek.website 1 year ago
Honestly I bought YouTube premium through a VPN to turkey for that price for the entire year. Seems worth it.
jarfil@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I mostly wanted YouTube Music for my bedroom speaker, but if they’re throwing in ad-free YouTube along with it, so be it.
Luvs2Spuj@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Same here. I was listening to a beautiful violin piece being played by a soloist and an ad interrupted it. I would be fine with watching the ad before. I immediately went and watched it elsewhere.
Later, I came back to YouTube for something unrelated and had a message/popup that said ‘tired of being interrupted? Upgrade to premium here!’
They know exactly what they are doing, trying to make it unbearable to use anything other than premium. They can get fucked.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Or the knack of starting the add 2 seconds into a guitar solo…
Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Shorts are such a stupidly blatant way to start showing more ads than content, and they make navigating channels impossible. Hell you can’t even get away from ads in search results with premium.
Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 1 year ago
Shorts are just a TikTok clone…
aulin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Which is just a Vine clone.
Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 1 year ago
Which is funny because Vine failed to sufficiently monetize and shut down…
In any case the point is shorts weren’t designed from the ground up as some way for YouTube to squeeze more ads in out of some “diabolical laboratory of Google.” Shorts were designed to compete with an existing product.
MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Noaw I understand why so many people hate shorts! I never use the official app or browser to watch, so I don’t see the advertisements.