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0 pointssophacles3y ago0 comments

Cable tv was originally ad-free because you paid for the content instead. Now you pay and get more ads than network tv instead!

Premium channels were ad-free longer, because you the content producers didn't have to share the fees based on (estimates) of how much the channel was watched.

Lots of ad-free services really mean "no ads except bumpers since you must like ads just not in the middle of the show".

Why would anyone be stupid enough to trust google to keep the "ad free" experience ad free?

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frostmatthew3y ago

> Why would anyone be stupid enough to trust google to keep the "ad free" experience ad free?

One can cancel their YouTube Premium subscription at any time for any reason, including and especially if it is no longer delivering an ad-free experience. In the meantime I'm quite happy paying $10 a month (annual plan) to never see ads.

edgyquant3y ago

But videos are crawling with ads from the content creator themselves? So you aren’t getting an ad free experience for that 10$.

scarface743y ago

Cable TV has never been as free. It was first a method to deliver broadcast channels to areas without a good signal and then you had the “Superstations” like TBS and WGN that also had ads.

The only channels that were ever ad free were the premium channels that are still ad free.

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