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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. ad blocker? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    My youtube ad blocker works perfectly. I never see advertisements while watching youtube.

    I'd happily pay for the ad blocker. I won't pay google for the joy of them not spamming me.

    1. Re:ad blocker? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I don't mind the idea of a paid service to remove the advertisements. Unfortunately I would then need to log into Youtube and be subject to their tracking and profiling algorithms. For the time being I'll just stick with Adblock and an anonymous VPN.

    2. Re: ad blocker? by itzly · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I use firefox + adblock plus 2.6.3, and I don't see any ads either.

    3. Re:ad blocker? by jones_supa · · Score: 3, Insightful

      My youtube ad blocker works perfectly. I never see advertisements while watching youtube.

      I'd happily pay for the ad blocker. I won't pay google for the joy of them not spamming me.

      Aren't you worried about the ethical choices you are making there?

    4. Re:ad blocker? by jones_supa · · Score: 3, Insightful

      No moral or ethical problem is present... "won't somebody think of the marketers" LOL.

      The content creators get their slice from advertisements as well.

      If youtube is not able to sustain itself when faced with a swarm of 'freeloaders' like me, well, it just wasn't meant to... bye bye.

      And what gives you the prerogative to be the freeloader? Obviously not everyone can be.

  2. Re:Have they not heard by Kohlrabi82 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    From my experience and knowledge, browsers on mobile devices don't have ad blocker plugins, and certainly the youtube apps for mobile platforms don't have them. I guess that's the market they're aiming for.

  3. Re:Stupid-Tax by TCM · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Correction: That's how marketing scum wants it to work.

    As was said, it's my machine. It runs code and downloads data _I_ want, not you. Don't like it? Go invent your own Internet with your own protocols that grant you more control and stop freeloading on the open protocols we already have!

    --
    Of course it runs NetBSD. BTC: 1NT7QvbetmANwaMzhpVL6
  4. Re: Ask yourself these questions... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Fuck off, spammer.