If I'm paying monthly for a service without ads and I see a single (1) advertisement, I should at least get a month of free subscription because the other party is in breach of contract.

I have premium too once I saw an ad and complained and it turned out to be a bug. I even had engineers reach out with questions when they were fixing the issue.

Maybe that has happened here? They have announced any changes.

Fucking called it

I get ads on premium sometimes. I think it's a fluke but def unacceptable

For everyone on Android, you can just patch the youtube app using ReVanced, which will remove ads, add sponsorblock, allow you to hide shorts and the "People also watched" sections. It can be pretty tricky to patch if you don't know what you're doing so feel free to tell me if you run into any issues.

If you don't care about the algorithm and your feed, you can get the third-party client NewPipe, it's FOSS ~~but sometimes crashes while reading some videos~~ It does not seem to crash anymore, so good thing!

Pick one!

Probably the lower tier of premium that’s being tested in Germany.

https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-premium-lite-returns-3491193/

Imagine paying money to see 2 fucking ads before a video.

What is the benefit of premium if you still have to watch ads?

YouTube ads cost about $0.026 (two and a half cents) per 30 seconds of viewing. This is called cpv.

It's not fair that ss a viewer I'm not able to bid on my own to show myself an empty ad slot. I'm looking at the price of premium and it definitely seems like more revenue for YouTube than I'd give them from ads.

these posts are just getting ridiculous. USE. BRAVE. OR. FIREFOX.

Ugh, you didn't even pay for Premium Plus?

Bloody peasant...

Check if you still have premium?

It's probably a bug. And to excuse the devs at Youtube, this is the first and only Premium client.

• Web: Firefox + uBlock Origin
• Mobile (Android only): Grayjay
• TV (Android): Smarttube
• iPhone/iPad: Brave Browser

Enjoy

A few years ago I got this experience on mobile and posted about it on r/assholedesign, but it was autoremoved as a banned repost even though I didn't see anything like it. Yet another ban happy subreddit, I'm glad to be out of that place. This is truly awful though, and why I'm happy to use revanced.

This is why you get anti-anti-adblock userscripts in tampermonkey inside of your browser and/or the same inside of adguard for windows. Along with an adblocking DNS

Give them an inch and they'll take 1000 miles. No more money for google, ever.

And this is why i,won't start paying them money. They will never be content and will just keep pushing ads further and further.

Firefox with ad blocker? You are wasting your money.

The second I get an ad on premium I cancel my subscription. Blocking ads on apple tv wasn’t easy, but Ill find a way

If it’s true and I get ads on my Premium (which.. to be fair I’m not paying full price anyway 😅), it may be the last push I needed to finally start reading books again..

How is this a shitpost? Is it a fake screenshot?

I feel like you don't fully understand that the line can go up. At the expense of everything...