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by rvnx 1607 days ago
There is also a similar issue with YouTube at two levels:

1) Sometimes the Premium mode of YouTube doesn't work, and you still get the ads (this looks like a cache bug or something like that where the Premium setting is not activated).

YouTube doesn't believe it's real, though I managed to screenshot it.

2) You pay for YouTube premium, but you still get in-video embedded ads that creators encode in the stream, like LinusTechTips. In a way this is not fair, as the promise to stop seeing ads is not kept.

YouTube could enforce their policy to force the content creators to mark their sponsored videos segment and automatically skip them if you have Premium.
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demindiro 1607 days ago
You can use SponsorBlock[1] to automatically skip sponsors.

As for the ads: you could install uBlock Origin and not have to deal with ads in any case.

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

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gaius_baltar 1607 days ago
Just another reason to not use YouTube Premium. The whole thing just makes the problem worse by still allowing ads and requiring you to log in using an account that is also tied to your real world identity (for payment processing).

You just end up giving more data points to Google to track and don't get rid of all ads.

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nitrogen 1607 days ago
YouTube doesn't believe it's real, though I managed to screenshot it.

I seem to recall reading that advertisers can outbid premium in the ad auction, in which case you will still see ads. Can anyone confirm?

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