YouTube adverts.

[Mo1959]

It is £12.99 a month for me. I think if you pay via Apple, they add a fee to that.

I use YouTube Music a lot and get ad-free plus background playback on that, both of which are important to me. I could also download videos but don't generally do that.

Ahh, must be more for the music. I am very rare in that I hardly ever listen to music so I'm quite happy just with getting uninterrupted videos.

 

[ColinJ]

Ahh, must be more for the music. I am very rare in that I hardly ever listen to music so I'm quite happy just with getting uninterrupted videos.

It would drive me mad when I am doing 90+ minutes on the turbo trainer to have someone interrupting my music playlist to shout into my earbuds about buying brand abc of product xyz!!

I just looked at my stats... I have averaged 2 hours a day on YouTube since I signed up for Premium in January 2023. I am not staring at the screen for all of that time though. A lot of it is music or podcasts playing in the background while I am doing other things.

What really bugs me is not Premium vs ads on YouTube, but having to pay extra on top of my subs on Prime and Netflix to stop the ads there.

 

[presta]

Is there any way around it.

I've noticed that if you minimise the window whilst listening to music it'll play for hours without ads.

£160 for 12 months, or £16 is probably twice what I was expecting to see!

I happily pay the £39.99 to Channel 4 to avoid adverts on their platform, but I don't use youtube enough to justify an outlay of 4 times that amount.

I'd pay a subscription that gives access to everything, but if I bought a separate subscription for every website I use it'd cost a fortune.

 

[Beebo]

I'd pay a subscription that gives access to everything, but if I bought a separate subscription for every website I use it'd cost a fortune.

I’m of the same opinion with podcasts.
I listen to around 15 separate podcasts and I can’t pay them all £5 a month. But I would happily pay a one off fee.

In this house we have Netflix, Amazon, TNT sports, Disney +, Apple TV, Spotify and of course the TV licence. So we are already paying huge amounts of money each month.
The constant dilution of media is making it impossible to keep up.

 

[albion]

Luckily linear TV keeps the intensity of Youtube adverts down, a little, it competing after all.
The US is far worse for ads.

My month of 'premium' had 'sponsor ads' . One would expect if linear TV went premium would ramp up the ads letting you also pay for a 'super premium'.

 

[presta]

I’m of the same opinion with podcasts.
I listen to around 15 separate podcasts and I can’t pay them all £5 a month. But I would happily pay a one off fee.

In this house we have Netflix, Amazon, TNT sports, Disney +, Apple TV, Spotify and of course the TV licence. So we are already paying huge amounts of money each month.
The constant dilution of media is making it impossible to keep up.

It's the same with software apps, if you bought a licence for every app you want to use it would cost a fortune, even if you're only using them once a tall time. What bugs me with apps is that they're often presented as being free, and then you find it locks out after a month because it was just free for a trial period.

I've had Sky TV pamphlets through the door, and I might have tried it if you could buy just the good channels, but that's not the way it works. They put each of the good channels in a separate bundle, then fill up the rest of the bundles with dross, so you have to buy everything just to get what you want. The same reason I bought very few vinyl LPs: one or two good tracks and the rest filled with dross.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Is there any way around it

If I'm browsing through my YouTube feed on the phone and come across something I want to see, I just watch it without clicking on it. It's usually language related so I don't normally need the visual aspect, it's more like listening to a podcast. In that mode, the adverts never play.

 

[albion]

Most of youtube is clickbait dross. Being quantity over quality click headlines invariably are lies, with the main redeeming things being historic music concerts and sport highlights.

 

[MontyVeda]

there's plenty of adblockers available. Works for me (on PC).

 

[raleighnut]

It's the same with software apps, if you bought a licence for every app you want to use it would cost a fortune, even if you're only using them once a tall time. What bugs me with apps is that they're often presented as being free, and then you find it locks out after a month because it was just free for a trial period.

I've had Sky TV pamphlets through the door, and I might have tried it if you could buy just the good channels, but that's not the way it works. They put each of the good channels in a separate bundle, then fill up the rest of the bundles with dross, so you have to buy everything just to get what you want. The same reason I bought very few vinyl LPs: one or two good tracks and the rest filled with dross.

Aye but as the owner of a decent system those 'good' tracks are what you need, even Sting did a couple of amazing songs.

 

[captain nemo1701]

The ads are almost always for some AI app or betting.

 

[Profpointy]

I keep on getting a stream of whisky adds on faceache. Fair enough, I do like my malt whisky on occasion, but a set of 5 bottles of good malt for £80 - yeah right! Scammy scam scam

 

[MichaelW2]

Why do ad agencies treat YT as just another ad break for their 30 second tv production. After 10 seconds I sm already hating the product.
Even worse, a lot of ads are turning me noticably more racist as People Of Colour interrupt me and try to sell me stuff I dont want. Its like the ad agencies looked around for a volunteer for a dangerous mission.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

a lot of ads are turning me noticably more racist as People Of Colour interrupt me….

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Blimey!

That’s quite an admission there.