They could probably make more money if they expanded the Youtube Premium Lite program to more countries. People will pony up a bit to avoid commercials, but what they charge to bolt on the unwanted music program is ridiculous.

Oh yes but Google pushes the full 30 seconds ads anyway because they can charge more.

A lot of the major news sites like NBC and CBS are rolling out software from a company named Admiral that blocks you from the site until you turn off your ad blocker. Its annoying as hell. Now I have to make sure to block the ad blocker blockers.

Yeah, the five second ads at the beginning are not why I went out of my way to block ads on Youtube, it was the 30 second ads every two minutes on some videos. I’ve gone without ad blockers occasionally when I get a new device, and always end up installing one eventually, not because I mind a few banner ads here and…

I watch YouTube at home on my PC via the Opera browser, using the private tab option. I never see ads. Although I have a YT account, I only use it on my phone when I wish to comment on a video, which is rarely.

What’s really amusing is that there’s a blocker specifically for YouTube ads and it’s in the Chrome store.

Honestly, if YouTube wasn’t so saturated with ads, I’d be okay with it. A single ad before a 10-minute video? Cool. Three unskippable ads before watching a 1-minute video? Really, Google?

If they would offer an ad-free tier of YouTube Premium without the music service at say $3/mo I’d be willing to do that. I have no use for the music service though and $11/mo is just to expensive.

I think more people would sign up for ads free if it was say 4.99 and didn’t come with Music and stuff most people dont want from them

Youtube is unwatchable without an ad-blocker. Multiple ads in a 15 minute video, sometimes inserted in the middle of a sentence, volume balance way off. Just, no.

Google makes enough money selling my data so they don’t deserve to get money from me directly. All the youtubers I watch have merch stores or pateron, so I support them directly that way. If they did this, it would hurt the youtubers because I’d stop watching and buying their stuff. 

People wouldn’t be blocking ads if they weren’t intrusive, repetitive and inserted into videos far too frequently.

Ok.

Bye then, YouTube.

Watching on mobile is usually fine, there seems to be a single pre-roll ad and 1 mid roll ad. I use adblocker on desktop, so can’t comment there. Watching on my AppleTV on a TV, though? It’s EXCRUCIATING. An 8 minute video has a pre-roll ad and 3-4 ad breaks with 2 ads each in the video. That’s WAY too much. I put it…

Just like gmail automatically sending the class action against them to people’s spam folders. 

“The company has repeatedly stated that ad blockers violate its terms of service.” Yet they have an adblocker built into Chrome browser! So you can block other sites’ ads, but not Googles!  Irony or greed?

I agree. The advertisers should know that their message is understood in the first few seconds, so why make the ad 30 seconds long? The same for website, if you don’t grab the visitors attention in the first few seconds, he will jump out.

Forced ads are a thing of the past - that’s 1990's thinking. Youtube have the data - I’m betting not a single ad plays more than the required 4 second before it’s skipped. ie. they’re pointless. The more you try to force people to watch ads, the more they’ll find ways to not do so. Youtube makes billions off paid…

Glad I got in with Google Play Music back in the intro offer for $7.99/month. Years later and I’m paying that for (what is now) YouTube Music + YoutTube Premium.

Still, I sympathize with those who have to deal with YT ads and all this BS.

Here’s an idea-