YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers – and it's doing something about it

A premium-lite offering is what’s missing for me to subscribe. The Australia cost of premium is at least $21.99 and there’s no opt out for the music offering which I will never use, making it bad value compared to an ad blocker.<p>About $12 is all I’m willing to spend per month given the much lower content consumption compared to even prime video for me, and that includes Amazon prime for about $12 anyway.<p>I bring this up because the article mentions Youtube seems to have killed that off, which I suspect will drive more ad blocker usage rather than more people switching to full premium.

Ad blocking tools can always update too. If YouTube keeps fighting to draw more and more revenue out of its users, it only drives people to other services like TikTok, where their ripped content is ready to watch. Creators on YouTube should possibly be given free accounts, because we all know the pay for their work is not fair as well. Most YT creators don&#x27;t make a dime for their work.

&quot;Come at me bro&quot;. If YouTube helped me watch less YouTube that would be good too.

YT is too expensive. Even their lite plan (last look, 12,99 &#x2F; month) isn&#x27;t worth it - it&#x27;s a good timekiller when I&#x27;m bored, but it doesn&#x27;t often offer enough value for the money they want.

Well it was good while it lasted. I had to cut my YouTube watching anyways. Thanks Google

Youtube is ad ridden anyway. I am using Premium, which gets rid of the third party ads. But sadly most Youtubers (content creators) get sponsored by Surfshark and the like. Some now do two in-content ads that you then have to skip over. It&#x27;s annoying, repetitive and let&#x27;s be honest - extremely irrelevant.

why don&#x27;t they just allow ads to be skippable.<p>shoving unrelated, unskippable ads is the reason people use adblock.<p>also content advertising, where the video is the advert. like biased tech &quot;reviewers&quot; only giving you a list of reasons to buy a product.

They should make Premium global before they start whining. I couldn&#x27;t pay for it even if I wanted to (and I do). So ad blockers it is.

It hasn&#x27;t worked for Twitch, I doubt it&#x27;ll work for YouTube.

YT Premium in my country: - 6x more expensive than Amazon Prime, - 15% more expensive than yearly HBO Max plan.<p>I’m still adblocking, YT has to offer a lot but somehow I feel like it should be cheaper. Maybe it was free for to long for us to adjust easily?

People: &quot;I hate that ads are everywhere on the Internet&quot;<p>Also people: &quot;I&#x27;m not paying for that&quot;

Wondering when yt will implement ads straight into video stteam so that detection will be much harder

My government manipulates the ads, recommended and related videos on Youtube for certain people.<p>Invidious at least has no ads, and you can get rid of the recommended and related sidebar.

What&#x27;s to stop youtube showing ads on premium? (This is also what happened to eg. a lot of cable channels)

I don&#x27;t have a YouTube account and I&#x27;m using NewPipe SponsorBlock. On the web I use Piped. Haven&#x27;t seen an ad in years.

I&#x27;m using Youtube&#x27;s own ad blocker called &#x27;Premium&#x27;. Have not seen the warning yet.

Wonder if spotify will grow in popularity as a result of this in terms of podcast content.