[PurestGuava]

OK, but we're very specifically discussing YouTube here, which as discussed, you don't have to pay for; but if you do, you don't see ads.

[DeusExMachina]

Except, you do.

https://www.howtogeek.com/more-ads-are-coming-to-youtube-pre...

[Workaccount2]

Clearly they are referring to the ad-free plan, not the cheaper ad-subsidized plan.

[sokoloff]

If you do, you don’t see pre-roll and mid-roll ads. You still see embedded ads, sponsor mentions, “all the tools we used are linked below”, etc.

[vntok]

That's on the video creator, not YouTube. Just tell them to stop or you won't watch their videos anymore.

[agent327]

...for now. But I do wonder how well this statement will age.

[carlosjobim]

All of the people commenting on this thread will be dead and buried one day. That's how well all of this will age.

[agent327]

Society used to have the wisdom to plant trees for its children to sit under. On the whole I think I like that attitude a lot better than this "apres moi, le deluge" thinking we see so much of now.