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Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

As a youtube premium member i wish youtube could cut out all ads for everyone and just keep the premium advantages for members. But i’m sure it’s not that easy to keep the boat afloat. Hopefully they can get to a healthy balance of income for watch time and reduce ads for free viewers. But we all know they just want to see the line go up for the greed and would never reduce ads if people still watch with as many ads as possible.

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lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

But we all know they just want to see the line go up for the greed and would never reduce ads if people still watch with as many ads as possible.

Exactly - there’s no such thing as “we got enough income, so maybe we should be kinder to our users”, when it comes to Alphabet/Google/YouTube.

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- P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Alphabet?
  
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  - lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Google’s parent company.
    
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    P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Damn
    
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Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’ve had a YouTube premium subscription for a long time as well, what advantages are there besides no ads that are actually worth having?

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- Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Youtube music comes with youtube premium wich i use a lot, listening with the screen turned off wich i use a lot for music and asmr, i saw that they added some kind of upscaling on some videos that i think are under 1080p to 1080p with increased bitrate or something like that, they added games recently wich i could not care less about. There might be other stuff but i’m not sure what else could be premium.
  
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  - Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah, I use YouTube music a lot. In terms of YouTube itself though, it’s basically no ads, and the creators you do watch get a bit more coin than thru otherwise would.
    
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    Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I just noticed a new premium feature. I had a button pop up on screen to skip a sponsored segment in a video XD
    
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- Tja@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Adding to what has already been said, offline viewing in the mobile app, while still synchronizing the status of watched videos when you go back online. Already existed with new pipe, but now the creators get rewarded.
  
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