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Comment by kitsune_ | Hacker News Reader

I'm paying for YouTube Premium and I fully expect them to do the same thing once they've squeezed the lemon dry and need to find more money in this perverse game of rentier capitalism.

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Ut premium is already rotten with ads. Every goddamn popular video is either brought to you by nordvpn, ridge wallet or a goddamn ballsack shaver. It's sickening tbh.

I've gotten really good at tapping the skip-forward-10-seconds button a couple of times whenever the ad comes up.

The only creator where I don't do that is Acerola, because he puts a video of him playing with his cat in a pip view during his ad. I can zone out for the ad and enjoy the cat video instead. Win-win

Haha yes! This is the problem with YouTube premium. It's not ad free at all :(

I'm so glad people have made sponsorblock

Try out Sponsorblock [0]. It skips sponsored content in YouTube videos.

[0] https://sponsor.ajay.app/

Im mostly on mobile and google tv. All the 3rd party youtube apps kept breaking on me, so at some point I just gave up and embraced the suck.

Seems like YouTube shouldn’t allow this. Like they should require creators to timestamp their sponsorship segments so they auto skip for premium subscribers. That way Google can get a cut of the pie by directing their premium subscribers eyes to other types of ads or something.

Step 0: Have a crappy ad ridden platform

Step 1: Create an ad free "premium" experience for a price

Step 2: Raise prices

Step 3: Create a cheaper tier which is "ad supported"

But are any of the steps: profit? Serious question for those in the know.

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