Comment on YouTube launches a $7.99 per month, ad-free Premium Lite subscription

Xanza@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• residentmarchant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Somebody didn’t read the article! It’s only Music videos that will have ads. It seems the cost savings here are all from cutting out record label contracts

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  • Xanza@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I did read the article. Music videos on YouTube are YouTube videos. Adding ads to them doesn’t magically make them something else.

    What they’re really saying is “oh, well, we want you to get used to the subscription model having ads on some things, because we plan to expand it massively in the future.”

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    • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      We’re arguing about whether music videos are videos and therefore there will be ads on videos… Here’s what the article says. Pretty straightforward.

      With YouTube Lite, customers will be able to watch videos across verticals like gaming, fashion, beauty, cooking, news, and more, ad-free, but will be shown ads on music content and music videos.

      My YT usage includes exactly zero anything related to music, so this seems relevant for me.

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  • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I don’t want ads in any of my videos, but if I have to have intrusive and distracting profit generating clips interrupt what I actually want to watch … I think music videos are among the ones I’d prefer disrupted the least.

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    • Nighed@feddit.uk ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Then you are using it for music and pay the full rate.

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      • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Well, in fact, I just tolerate the ads and don’t directly offer financial recompense. Indeed, if I were to go for a paid tier, you are correct that it would likely be one that didn’t put ads where I want them least.

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  • Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s also appear on the main screen, as you’re browsing and on shorts

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