I would guess that almost all folks here use the Yootube (YT) site in one form or another. I have an account there for posting videos of a more mechanical nature.
My question is this: do you pay for the option of not having to see the inter-video commercials? I might want to do it.
For about the past 6 months or so, I have noticed that I did not get ANY commercials. But most recently they are back. I recently upgraded both my home laptop and office desktop from Win10 to Win11 … perhaps it is a coincidence.
Has anyone noticed commercial free videos recently and then it just ended?
If so, what PC based OS are you using?
I almost think that perhaps that if YT was doing a gratis commercial free site for a time and it was to lull folks into liking that aspect… then they reintroduced them back in to rope folks into paying. I am one of those who would now consider paying because I like the commercial free watching.
my understanding is that the way YT serves ads is constantly updated to circumnavigate ad blockers — sometimes ill see no ads but then all of a sudden a lot of them.
i don’t sub to YT but considering how much stuff on there i watch i probably should, the ads are infuriating.
I’ve always hated ads, and spend some effort eliminating them from my life as much as possible. I get a lot of my entertainment from YouTube, so a subscription is totally worth it for me. It also (from what I’ve heard anyway) pays the creators you watch more than they would get from ad revenue from your views, so it’s better for everyone. And it comes with YouTube Music which might let you eliminate another music subscription, or it’s something new you can check out.
I have seem as many ads lately as there were before. It depends maybe whether the channel owner has decided to monetize their videos. Lots of smaller channels still don’t have ads in their videos. And some bigger channels have 2 adds at the beginning of the videos, and lots more ads in the middle of the videos.
I watch YouTube a lot on a tablet, from the YouTube app, so it unfortunately shows every ad. But when I’m at my pc, I have an ad blocker in my browser (forgot the name, maybe u-block?) and it is able to block the ads. Some ad-blockers aren’t able to stop ads.
The ads are irritating, but I really don’t like the idea of paying Google, because they already profit a lot from using and selling our personal information and tracking us as much as they can, and they even go as far as using information from emails and photos on Google Drive to train AI. So I really object to giving them any money.
But I understand the ads can be so infuriating and annoying, so people might prefer to pay such that they won’t have to see ads.
I often use a VPN and set my country as Sweden, so the ads will be in Swedish. This way they are amusing and much less annoying! (@Whying_Dutchman would probably enjoy doing that too)
has your experience been literally ZERO ads, or almost always zero ads? i would be very irate if i paid and still got ads even once in a while. (obviously sponsored ad reads within a video are fine).
I surf YouTube on my iPhone, Mac Studio and AppleTV (w/OLED LG G4 TV).
Typical content quality is highly improved, including tutorials of all sorts, news, documentaries, TV shows and complete movies. The viewing experience has been seamless, no fucking ads at all.
I do. I used to use Vanced and ReVanced, But it’s a pain in the ass when it stops working and they have to fix it. I use YouTube more than any other streaming service, so I ended up just paying for it. I used YouTube Music for a while because it comes with it, and that was okay but there’s a lot of AI creep and I ended up switching to Deezer. So now I have YouTube premium light, which is YouTube with no ads but you don’t get the YouTube music, and I use Deezer for music because they actually have a plan and fight back against the AI bullshit.
Agreed, not to mention most of what I’m looking for is on BitChute or Rumble. Youtube censors too much for my liking, but of course, things that become conspicuous by their absence are always interesting.
I don’t subscribe or see ads.
I use a couple of adblockers on Firefox, there was a brief time a couple of months ago when Youtube nearly got through but I don’t get any ads now.
I am more worried that our (WEF) Govt is trying to make everyone verify their identity to use YT in a few weeks (you know, to bring in a Digital ID)
The only ads I see now is the specific collection of ads I want to watch on YouTube, I have not seen ads in a very long time at least a few years. wait, not entirely true, I gotta watch some ads on the game from time to time.
Oh I still remember that one! The Uk has always had good adverts. Even like 40 years later I can still remember the jingles.
About YT - my name is Ed and I pay for YT Premium. I just got sick of the adverts. Also there is no real alternative with the sheer volume of content, and most of the others are filled with nutbag conspiracy theorists. Have said that though, YT music is reasonable and you can download content to your phone - also you can play the films and music with the screen off.
I also tried boycotting the tech companies @andrea-slndr but Microsoft and Google have me by the ba**s
This is what I do. Although I watch a lot of YT, not just music but science and history - although caveat emptor, a lot of misinformation posing as fact (I’m talking science and history not political shenanigans)
This way they are amusing and much less annoying! 
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wait, not entirely true, I gotta watch some ads on the game from time to time.