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As for the comments etc, it’s social media, any video that’ gets served outside of a channels core audience is going to be a dumpster fire and basically impossible to moderate.

No one has ‘cracked’ this issue, forums like this don’t scale, Reddit is horrible for facilitating discussion, stuff like YouTube comments is basically a feedback form for the channel owner.

Sure no one has "cracked" this issue but both managing and searching your own comments - where you even get thrown out of the YT ecosystem into some random Google pages, and managing channel comments is a hideous, dated and limited experience.

Pretty much anything outside of the core player feels like an afterthought, often fragmented in approach, dated in functionality and often feels like someone got it basically working then abandoned it - so it makes a hard sell for the kind of money they want for the full Premium.
 
You could pay, or not use the service if you don’t like the adds because it’s not actually free, just saying ;)
When it was a few ads and or smaller ads, it wasn't so much of a problem, but now it's beyond frustrating.

Also, where and when does it stop? This kind of crazy insanity is popping up all over the world. Adguard toilet paper advert insanity.
 
When it was a few ads and or smaller ads, it wasn't so much of a problem, but now it's beyond frustrating.

Also, where and when does it stop? This kind of crazy insanity is popping up all over the world. Adguard toilet paper advert insanity.

Sadly it has a chance of becoming normalised into countries like our own :( but ostensibly it is being introduced in places which don't have free toilet paper in public toilets, etc. in the first place, though that itself is pretty deplorable.
 
When it was a few ads and or smaller ads, it wasn't so much of a problem, but now it's beyond frustrating.

Also, where and when does it stop? This kind of crazy insanity is popping up all over the world. Adguard toilet paper advert insanity.

A few/small ads wouldn’t pay for the platform, it’s as simple as that really.

Streaming video isn’t cheap and YouTube isn’t super profitable, yes they make a profit but it’s not ‘tech bro’ profit.

They reportedly have revenue of $50bn but they also have nigh on 3bn active users. Do the math, that isn’t a lot of revenue per active user.

People forget they pay out 70% of the ad/premium revenue to content owners. They also pay out over half of all other revenue. That’s before you consider consider any cost to run the platform.

The numbers only work because of scale and western advertisers/premium subscribers, without them, it would be dead already.
 
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Got kicked off again at some point this week on my India Apple plan. Can't log back in though as I'm away and used a second phone to sign up. No access to the phone or telephone number for a push notification or text, which is annoying. Oh well, hopefully can get it working again next week.
 
Got kicked off again at some point this week on my India Apple plan. Can't log back in though as I'm away and used a second phone to sign up. No access to the phone or telephone number for a push notification or text, which is annoying. Oh well, hopefully can get it working again next week.

You renew it through the Apple Settings app, not through YouTube.

Search for “Subscriptions” in Settings.
 
Yeah, that's the thing, it's using a second Apple account on a second phone, which I don't have access to at the moment. I tried logging into Apple.com last night, but I can't pass 2FA without getting a push notification to the phone or an SMS.
 
Had to renew my "Student" account for another year. They thought I had ...cough....graduated, so pushed me to the regular monthly sub. Logged into my work email (university) and renewed at the student rate again for another year
 
I noticed that the lite plan is now available in Spain. Can any people who have had it in the UK (or elsewhere) for some time, could comment on the frequency and types of content that still have ads? Also what is YouTube music like, how often are the ads?

13.99 for premium, 7.99 for lite, I'm tempted


rp2000
 
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Had to renew my "Student" account for another year. They thought I had ...cough....graduated, so pushed me to the regular monthly sub. Logged into my work email (university) and renewed at the student rate again for another year
Don't worry, you'll graduate eventually
 
I noticed that the lite plan is now available in Spain. Can any people who have had it in the UK (or elsewhere) for some time, could comment on the frequency and types of content that still have ads? Also what is YouTube music like, how often are the ads?

13.99 for premium, 7.99 for lite, I'm tempted


rp2000
Or just get premium via VPN for less than £5/m like everyone else in this thread...
 
I noticed that the lite plan is now available in Spain. Can any people who have had it in the UK (or elsewhere) for some time, could comment on the frequency and types of content that still have ads? Also what is YouTube music like, how often are the ads?

13.99 for premium, 7.99 for lite, I'm tempted


rp2000

YouTube music isnt part of the lite plan. So you dont need to worry about ads there :D
 
YouTube music isnt part of the lite plan. So you dont need to worry about ads there :D
youtube music i can just test with a spare google account. I imagine its like 1 advert every 2-3 songs, no big deal.

Its the "limited ads" on the videos in the lite plan i'm most curious about.


rp2000
 
youtube music i can just test with a spare google account. I imagine its like 1 advert every 2-3 songs, no big deal.

Its the "limited ads" on the videos in the lite plan i'm most curious about.


rp2000

In the UK on lite you get a ~30 second back to back ad feature at the start of anything tagged as a music video, no other videos have ads but there is a small amount on the pages i.e. mixed in with search results.
 
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