> The ads aren’t going into your paid plans (except maybe a highly discounted tier, depending on the market). The ads are a play to offer a free version. Having an ad-supported free tier isn’t new.

Sounds like it is new for ChatGPT though. That's also how it started with TV and Youtube, first on the free tier then expanding to the paid ones.

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smt88 a day ago | parent | next [-]

YouTube, Spotify, and most video steamers have zero ads on paid tiers. I never see video ads.

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PurpleRamen a day ago | parent | next [-]

Most services have now light premium-tiers, where they do show ads. And then there are the rats like Amazon, who just add them to the normal tiers, and offer an additional service to not show ads.

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adjejmxbdjdn a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

YT has a Premium Lite paid tier (at least in the U.S.) that does show ads on music and in certain other areas of the app, such as shorts, searching, browsing, etc.

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Zardoz84 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't paid anything to YouTube and I don't see any ads. Because I block ads.

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smt88 a day ago | parent [-]

Do you feel good about YouTube spending money on hosting and video producers spending time/money on content that you're paying nothing for? How is that sustainable?

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joquarky 20 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The categorical imperative has been put on life support since 2016 at the latest.

Everything is smash and dash now. And nobody with the means to change it cares about externalities anymore.

	▲	smt88 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don't understand any of those sentences. How do they apply to YouTube?

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danaris 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Frankly? That's Google's (well, Alphabet's, I guess) problem.

They're a multibillion-dollar international monopoly with absolutely staggering amounts of money and power, actively engaging in a wide variety of activities directly aimed at making the lives of every normal person on the planet worse so that they can have more power, more control, and more money. Me blocking ads on YouTube not only costs them effectively nothing, it's also the act of a flea against a polar bear.

If Alphabet showed any signs of actually wanting to create a sustainable alternative to the surveillance economy, I might have some sympathy for them. But not only do they not do this, they are the ones who created it in the first place.

	▲	smt88 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Doesn't your boycott of the ad-free model confirm to them that the only viable business model is ads?

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carlosjobim a day ago | parent | prev [-]

YouTube doesn't show ads on the paid plan. If you're talking about sponsored segments those would be impossible to moderate, and YouTube does offer easy skipping of those.