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Is it completely free of adverts, on everything? Whenever it advertises premium to me it focuses on music, which is particularly stupid given it must know I never watch music videos, so I just assumed (and actually thought I had read/heard) it was just for music.

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Yes it makes YouTube free of all ads. Another nice feature is background audio continues to play when youre out of the app. Best £12 month I spend. It’s £15 if you pay via the app so it’s better to subscribe when logged in to YouTube.com

> Another nice feature is background audio continues to play when youre out of the app

It used to do that free.

But that wasn't a sustainable business model so it doesn't make sense to expect that.

But amazingly YouTube's entire existence is based on (mostly) free to them user generated content.

Imagine running a company where almost the entire product line is given to the company free.

It still does in non-mobile browser tabs—and my iPad Safari can be set to non-mobile user agent (or whatever, it’s in the settings). So I can listen to YouTube and browse the internet, including HN, on iPad and desktop.

I use most services through their web interface, because I’d rather not use their apps. Though many services such as Instagram stopped making that possible so those I have no choice.

Yup, well worth it for me. No guilty feelings about hurting creators with Adblock.

It's free of ads from youtube. You'll still see in-video ads embedded by video creators.

(It's not like some podcast feeds, where you get a second rss link that has episodes without ads)

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