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by mk89 979 days ago
That's an implementation detail leak: for the end user it's just an advertisement. Call it as you want, but when I pay premium and you write "no ads" I want no ads. That's it.

I don't care that the content provider found a way to show ads. I have a contract with you - you have to figure it out.
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mk89 979 days ago
Ah right, I forgot: they don't want to do content moderation, because then they become gatekeepers etc.

They just want our money. Twice.

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squeaky-clean 979 days ago
Youtube doesn't get any money from sponsored segments. It's a direct deal between the channel owner and the sponsor.

The only way it gets YouTube additional money is because it lets those channels put out more frequent or higher budget videos, which usually leads to more views.

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mk89 979 days ago
When I said "they" I meant: content providers, service providers and so on.

I frankly don't care at all, I will never buy Youtube TV. However, justifying this behavior is ludicrous, even if YouTube doesn't monetize on such content.

It's just unfair - you pay for no ads, and ...well you do get them because "the file..."

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eviks 979 days ago
Yeah, but life has never been that simple
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mk89 979 days ago
I am more of the opinion that things were actually simpler before, even with analog TV. You knew what to expect. Now you pay 70$ per month, but hey, the file (?) you are streaming (?) contains an advertisement. Who cares?

I just want to watch a show. Without ads, because I paid to have no ads.

But hey we're a young generation, so we understand that it's not Youtube's fault... (?). Sorry, but no way! You are the service provider - you choose what goes through your platform. When I pay, you can't treat me like "you're (still) the product, sorry". That's for me unacceptable.

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tedunangst 979 days ago
So if you pay for premium you're blocked from watching movie trailers?
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mk89 979 days ago
Movie trailers are a bit different than coca cola ads, come on...

Plus, offer the chance to choose: with the amount of metadata flying through our networks, they are even able to guess what I ate for lunch, ... can't they really offer a checkbox like "show/don't show movie trailers"?

They are Youtube, not random startup run by a guy working on it over the weekends...

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