I saw today new “merch” section below comments. I’m a premium users for a reason, I want 0 ads.

I just canceled my subscription and moved to yattee / invidious for good.

  • @a4ng3l@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9•1 year ago

    It’s less ads and more your youtuber’s shop… you pay YouTube premium to get rid of their ads but you don’t pay your content creator… maybe if there was a subscription patreon-like it would be equivalent.

    • Alien Nathan EdwardEnglish
      14•1 year ago

      it’s an ad for the shop. i paid for no ads. i didn’t pay for “no ads except those we think you’d like to see”, i paid for no ads.

    • @Ziglin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      YouTube spends some of the money you pay for premium on the content creator, more than just user who watches ads, the only reason I would consider using premium, there will always be a way to block ads without spending money unless it’s moved Serverside and you have to wait the length of instead.

      Edit: The content creator can also just add a link in the end card to their patreon or merch store.

      • @a4ng3l@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        For niche content creators that aren’t in the million of subs what they get isn’t even subsistence money… hence their merchs. Those are not ads inserted in the video stream but screen space below the video… easily ignored especially compared to actual ads.