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Google To Offer Ad-Free YouTube - At a Price

Posted by samzenpus on from the pay-up dept.

First time accepted submitter totalcaos writes YouTube announced today its plans for an ad-free, subscription-based service by way of an email sent out to YouTube Partners. The email details the forthcoming option, which will offer consumers the choice to pay for an "ads-free" version of YouTube for a monthly fee. The additional monetization option requires partners to agree to updated terms on YouTube's Creator Studio Dashboard, which notes that the changes will go into effect on June 15, 2015. We talked about the possibility of an ad-free model back in October.

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  1. Re: ad blocker? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    yep.

  2. Re: ad blocker? by Sir_Substance · · Score: 3, Informative

    I use ad block edge.

  3. Re: ad blocker? by fuzzywig · · Score: 4, Informative
    AdBlock Plus and uBlock both work, on the Flash and HTML5 versions.

    ABP works so well that I didn't realise for quite a while that they'd introduced advert videos until I went round a friend's house.