They might be referring to people who have it occur due to a technical problem (needing to clear their cache or something). Other than that, tons of my friends and coworkers have Premium and they’ve never complained of ads, so I don’t think it’s a normal thing that occurs frequently.
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Soup@lemmy.world 2 days agoI don’t get any ads, what are you talking about?
I paid for it because, frankly, expecting Youtube to be completely free and fighting how it could be paid for is kinda crazy. We’re just used to it being free but running Youtube is expensive. I watch hours of Youtube nearly every day and don’t use Crunchyroll nearly as much so why am I ok paying for that but not Youtube?
Yes, if they do actually start pushing ads then I’m going to wonder what the hell I’m paying for but for the time being I’m ok with paying for a service. I only started paying for it recently, to be fair, but I get it.
bassomitron@lemmy.world 2 days ago
IkarusHagen2@feddit.org 2 days ago
No, there was an article which said that youtube will put ads into premium which they consider important, in that article it was about another product of youtube. Gonna try to find that article
Soup@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Bro I don’t speak German but yea sure, I believe you. That does sound pretty shit, and I’d be pretty pissed if that happened, yea.
IkarusHagen2@feddit.org 2 days ago
Most browsers can translate:D
MutilationWave@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I believe they’re trying out different tiers of premium in certain regions (not the US).
Aermis@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Lol why are you getting down voted? Jeez lemmy users are sensitive about paying for an entertainment service.
Soup@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Youtube has been free for so long that people forget that hosting all those videos costs money. They’ll pay for so many streaming services but if you make Youtube anything but a free, ad-free paradise they lose it.
Aermis@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I guess. I never had nor will ever pay for premium, but isn’t there premium content? How’s that any different than paying for patreon videos of content creators? YouTube just consolidated it.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Uhoh, the poor little baby corporation can’t handle hosting! Guess we will have to make the tools to self host then.
BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Premium ads popped up a bit ago, there were several posts and articles about it. Apparently they’re also testing different tiers of premium like Netflix.