I believe they’re trying out different tiers of premium in certain regions (not the US).
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bassomitron@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoThey 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.
MutilationWave@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Aermis@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Lol why are you getting down voted? Jeez lemmy users are sensitive about paying for an entertainment service.
Soup@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
There’s premium content, no ads, the creator gets paid significantly more for your Premium view, and bundled YouTube Music.
Soup@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yea, and while I don’t use it you also get Youtube Music bundled in.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Uhoh, the poor little baby corporation can’t handle hosting! Guess we will have to make the tools to self host then.
IkarusHagen2@feddit.org 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
Most browsers can translate:D