YouTube is currently running what it describes as a "small experiment globally," warning users to toggle off their ad blockers and avoid being limited to only three video views.

YouTube is currently running what it describes as a “small experiment globally,” warning users to toggle off their ad blockers and avoid being limited to only three video views.

  • myke_tuna@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    Honestly, as much as it pains me to say, I would pay for something below Premium. Like YouTube Plus or whatever. So I could get reduced ads, but not the crazy 3 minutes of ads they’ll probably go to. I think Premium is $12 USD a month right now, I would want something at $6 (preferably $5). I don’t think it’s worth it for me to pay $12 for the amount I watch YouTube, but some of the info on YouTube is worth paying a little something for them to host it. I’m definitely going to start downloading some videos now though in case YouTube gets worse and worse…

    • Blakerboy777@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      I set my location to a different country to get a cheaper rate. It’s a pain the in the ass to set up but might be worthwhile. My family plan is like $4.

    • LifeInOregon@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      $2.99 a month for an un-skippable ad at the beginning of a video is the threshold for me. Anything more than that and I’m just not interested. Make the length and cost of the ad itself commensurate to the length of the video it precedes. I hate watching videos that are chopped up into bits with thoughts interrupted at random.

    • Al_Borland@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      I pay for Premium. I find YouTube insufferable without it. I do most of my watching on an AppleTV, so there aren’t great ad-blocker options (maybe a Pi-Hole, but I haven’t bothered). I feel like I need to put my money where my mouth is. I hate how much of the internet is ad supported, so if I can throw the biggest reason for that some money to support a different business model to prove “free with ads” is not the only way to make the internet work, I’ll do it.

      That being said, Premium comes with YouTube Music, which I never use. I wish there was an option to just remove the ads without any “value added” services.