[motoxpro]

Grab YouTube premium to not see ads. You have to pay for it somehow, either you watch ads for free or you swap out your LTV for cash by just paying outright.

This isn’t a mark of degradation at all. “Back in the day” of non-monetization isn’t sustainable for any decent length of time because eventually the people donating (VCs) will want a return or will run out of money.

[olyjohn]

You act like they NEED to make every video have 5000 ads. It wasn't that bad before when you watched a short ad. But now they are just shoving them in your face. Go look at how much profit they made and tell me that increasing the ads to proposterous amounts was necessary.

[motoxpro]

I’m definitely not in favor of capping the amount of profit a company can make.

If they are raising prices (amount of ads shown) and people continue to pay then I can’t fault them for it.

As I type this I realize that both you and the person I was originally responding to are just expressing that you don’t like the price increases. Which is totally fair.

[CuriousSkeptic]

Are there truly no ads? Have been putting it of thinking it just removes the google injected ads, but keeping all the promotions and such

[mvdtnz]

There are no ads at all provided by YouTube. Obviously Google can't prevent content creators from embedding their own ads, which is becoming increasingly common.

[CuriousSkeptic]

> Obviously Google can't prevent content creators from embedding their own ads

Of course they could, just make it part of the service agreement.

I would feel much inclined to pay for youtube if they filtered out all ad-funded content.

Even better, they could have a model where content creators for the paid service got their piece of the revenue based in quality metrics rather than quantity metrics.

[least]

Sponsorblock[1] works pretty well for the creators’ advertisements.

[1] https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock

[mvdtnz]

I use this when I'm watching Youtube on a computer, but that's by far the minority of my usage.

[_aavaa_]

Adblock availability is the reason I watch exclusively on a laptop.

[godelski]

You can also watch on mobile using FF instead of the app