[masukomi]

You know there aren't ads if you actually pay for it right?

I agree the ads are obnoxious, but hosting YouTube is incredibly expensive, and online ads are incredibly cheap so... Even if they _weren't_ being greedy there would need to be A LOT of ads to compensate for the hosting & engineering costs.

Like... If you hate the ads THAT MUCH, but want to continue using the service, why not just pay for the service?

(side note: you also get streaming music (YouTube Music) when you pay for YouTube which is a nice bonus.)

[raincole]

But you're not just paying for the bandwidth. You're paying for the bandwidth that used by others who use ad blockers too.

It's a prisoners dilemma. The honest ones (who pay for YouTube premium) lost the most.

[ericfrazier]

It's a dark pattern of getting people hooked on free then moving to a pay only model even though they still make all their money off your data.

[TheLoafOfBread]

Are you sure that there won't be any ads in the future? Because it already repeatedly happened that that paid subscription was without ads, until it wasn't.

[HDThoreaun]

Why does that matter? Youtube premium isn't locking you into anything. If you decide you no longer like the service you can get rid of it.

[TheLoafOfBread]

It does matter a lot. If I do not want ads but get them later, even as a paying customer, then there is no reason to pay for no ads.

[HDThoreaun]

But you won't get them as a paying customer, because you'll stop paying if they try to show you ads...