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.world
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    1 year ago

    That’s a bit of an extreme take on the topic… not wanting ads from the broadcaster is one thing, not wanting to be separately presented with the promotional items of the youtuber himself is something else. I like seeing what the guys I follow are putting out. Maybe a 2nd option in ads content would be appropriate for you but don’t throw everyone in the same bag…

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      1 year ago

      Well, I am fine if I can disable it, however I don’t believe it can be disabled.

      I don’t care where the ad is coming from. To me if it’s not related to the video then it’s an ad.

      I am OK with self promoting in the video, but taking real estate of my screen to show merch is advertisement.

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      1 year ago

      An ad is an ad. If YouTube premium’s point is to remove ads then this should be included. Otherwise what’s the point? We should all just go back to using ad blockers.

      We should not pay for content twice. Viewing ads is paying for content. Paying for premium is paying for content.

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        1 year ago

        You’re not paying for content by seeing ads for YouTuber’s stores. That’s supplementary income for the YouTuber that doesn’t involve YTs revenues whatsoever.

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        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.

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          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.