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xp84today at 12:06 AM4 repliesview on HN

Serious question: Do you watch a lot of YouTube? Why not just cough up the $16 for YouTube Premium? Creators actually do get paid more for Premium users' views than they do from adsense. You get to see none of these ads that piss you off.

Look, I run UBlock Origin myself. But that's because there's zero other way to look at any Web content without going insane with videos and other garbage popping all over the place, and even when sites have memberships, I use too many distinct ones anyway, and the memberships may not remove the ads and junk.

But when it comes to sites like YouTube that let me choose between "ads" and "non-ads" experiences... I guess I'm just saying I see a ton of ROI on the $16.


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calmwormtoday at 1:45 AM

I don’t use YouTube at all but I can still answer - Because $16 will become $20, $30, $50 … and then they will begin to show ads again anyway.

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econtoday at 3:53 AM

I want to see and feel the product. Nowadays mostly to see how bad it is.

StilesCrisistoday at 1:48 AM

It's $29 per month for the family plan now.

dd8601fntoday at 4:39 AM

YouTube’s enshittification is shamelessly out of control.

If you really want it, you can vpn through certain countries they don’t show ads at all.