• Jennie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    fuck YouTube premium. why would I pay £19.99 a month when literally the only defining feature for me is no ads. all this will do is allow for more complex ad blockers to be made to bypass this

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      1 year ago

      The creators also get a good chunk of the money from premium as far as I’ve been able to verify (by asking some I follow directly).

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      1 year ago

      There’s a lite version that’s only for the ads.

      It’s cheaper than the full 19.99.

      While that might still be too much, I just wanted to point out that if you don’t want ads, it doesn’t cost the full 20quid.

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        This was news to me so I went looking and couldn’t find it on youtube. Reading articles seems to indicate it is only available in certain regions and at certain times. I finally found the link to the page (https://www.youtube.com/premiumlite) and confirmed it’s not available for me in the US at least.