Never seen that before, I’ve had premium for years now
Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish
BReel@lemmy.one 8 months ago
“You can go ad free with YouTube premium!”
Buys premium
youtube shows ad for paramount plus under my video
Cancels YouTube premium.
So anywho there’s a thing called freetube. Just saying. Idk that it’s a perfect alternative, but it’s at least one step further from googles prying eyes and grubby hands.
Palindromes@lemmy.world 8 months ago
BReel@lemmy.one 8 months ago
Threw in a response on the thread above, don’t wanna just copy past spam haha.
atetulo@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Dang. You actually bought premium instead of installing an adblocker?
BReel@lemmy.one 8 months ago
I didn’t wanna maintain an ad blocker, especially since I use youtube on a bunch of diff devices. Desktop/laptop/Ps4/Tv/Ipad/Phone like, everywhere. Premium just meant no ads on any of them with no fuss or maintenance.
Also the bonus of downloads/music/background play etc was very nice.
Honestly for someone like me who uses youtube as much as I do, it was 100% worth the money. I just ethically can’t bring myself to pay for it now that they straight up lied and took my money without even trying to be subtle about it.
atetulo@lemm.ee 8 months ago
You don’t have to maintain an adblocker.
bob_wiley@lemmy.world 8 months ago
BReel@lemmy.one 8 months ago
I think you have to be watching a video that it connects to.
So for example I was watching the Game Grumps play Peppa pig (lol I know but it was hilarious) so it put an ad saying “try paramount plus to watch peppa pig” under it.
I’ve seen it on a few other vids that have movies associated, like sonic for example. Seems to be a semi recent thing though
(Is this how I post a pic on Lemmy? lol)
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DeprecatedCompatV2@programming.dev 8 months ago
This is not the kind of ad most people are talking about though. This is like Amazon trying to get me to buy insurance whenever I purchase electronics (which I never do, of course).
bob_wiley@lemmy.world 8 months ago
BReel@lemmy.one 8 months ago
Yeah I only ever saw it on Desktop since I do most my viewing there, and even then only on specific videos. So its not crazy frequent, just annoying its a thing at all.
I do love the idea of youtube building in a skip for in vid sponsors though, that would possibly bring me back haha. Like if sponsored creators were required to add a “sponsor” chapter to their vids, so premium users could have it just skip that block of the video 🤔
FunnyUsername@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Same. Have honestly enjoyed my YouTube subscription. Combined with the extension to bypass in-video ads, i basically never get marketed to on YouTube, and some of my money actually DOES go to creators. I think it’s more worth the money than Netflix, at least. It’ll be the last subscription I get rid of.
Echrichor@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Same