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

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 18 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 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don't understand any of those sentences. How do they apply to YouTube?

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danaris 7 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.