They also for a long while showed ads in the interface despite premium. I confirmed with support thes cancelled.
“Surprise”
It’s a ‘Feature’ 😏
Oops, that test hit 80% of customers, was supposed to be 20%.
I remember noticing YouTube’s software quality taking a nosedive when they shoved Shorts into the app. At the time, it seemed like it was hastily done as a reaction to TikTok’s explosion, but it’s still a buggy POS , even after all these years.
prenium was originally to get people off of using adblockers, nothing more it was always going to come down to forced ads one way or another.
Google confirms YouTube Music Issue with Premium users getting angry at their advertising injection attempt.
“accidently on purpose”
Paramount gets confused about who is ad free too. You have to restart the app to fix it. I just got the ad version cause why bother if I get ads and can’t fast forward or rewind anyhow?
Give it six months, maybe a year. There WILL be ads in YouTube premium and you’ll have to pay another premium on top of that for ad free.
Like the stupid duolingo pro and the pro max thing…and the pro max is just an extra fee to talk to an AI.
Premium Lite is already a thing.
Premium Pro
This only makes sense if watching for free with ads wasnt an option, if they wanted more money they would just raise the cost of premium
I mean, this exact thing has already happened with other services. Hulu used to have a free ad supported tier and a paid ad free tier, for example
I guess the other difference is that YouTube isn’t traditional media, the content you consume on there has no exclusivity or anything. And the creators producing it are incentivized to go where the biggest audience is (which will always be something free) to maintain relevance and gain bigger sponsorships
Something like Netflix, Hulu, Prime, etc. pays for the content in advance with MAYBE some royalties (and never a lot) and they own the media produced. YouTube doesn’t pay for production (they tried this and it failed horrifically) they pay a portion of the revenue that gets generated from viewership
“No midrolls”
Don’t even say that
Gemini was crashing for days, YouTube went down, Youtube music Premium is playing ads, sheesh. Guess vibe coding isn’t working
Lol, there should be a law that if you pay for a service advertised as ad free, they have to refund you a month of service for each ad they show you.
Consumer protection laws probably do apply. Ask for a refund and cite whatever laws apply to ‘product not as described’.
I live in the US, what are consumer protection laws?
Trump says consumer protection laws cost us money silly, we don’t need them.
Let’s not pretend that the US’ lax consumer protection laws have anything to do with Trump. The political elites have been helping the wealthy and corporations hinder those long before that dumbass ever ran for office.
I don’t know, I am going to have to call BS on the idea that Kamala Harris would have dismantled the consumer protection bureau. On the other hand the Republicans have been trying to hamper it for awhile.
I agree that ultimately corporations are going to call the shots and they wanted it gone.
With billionaires now openly buying politicians (instead of greasing their palms under the counter), I’d say the odds of such a law have become even worse.
Google stealthing premium users lol
No joke, this is exactly why I cancelled Spotify and went back to piracy!
They “”accidentally“” started playing ads one night, didn’t apologize or offer any refunds, and it was the easiest decision ever to dust off my pirate hat and not look back.
No regrets!
So much better listening to music I chose and actually enjoy.
And the app had so much garbage and bullshit put in it that it was slow and horrible to use. I downloaded musicolet and its miles faster than Spotify aids
First time seeing musicolet mentioned in the wild, cool!
Oops, we accidentally ripped you off, again.
Now could they please fix the blatant advertisements disguised as “Featured” bullshit? I have zero interest in football, I’ve marked it as don’t show me a billion times.
I’m sorry you’re upset at the recommendation , perhaps you could listen to something to relax and calm down. 84% of our users like you relax by listening to the following: 1.football 2.ballfoot 3.fboaoltl or if you don’t like those, have you considered soccer?
How else are football people going to advertise to people that don’t like football and hope to convert them? Send ads specifically to people who try to opt out!
So what you’re saying is that you’ve engaged with football content a billion times.
Did Facebook’s shift to emojis teach us nothing? Engagement > Preference. You’re the product.
That’s not how it works with the rest of YouTube menus. You click the three dots, choose “not interested” and I never see those things again, including those channels. But for the YouTube Featured section it’s just a disguised ad roll. It doesn’t matter if you interact with it or not because they show it for whoever is paying them the most at that moment. Right now it’s Olympics, a few weeks ago it was Super Bowl, before that it was some games.
Huh, never had that problem with the cracked apk I use.
