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.
Imagine paying for youtube premium lmaooooo
I think it’s worth it personally. I use it for hours everyday for YouTube and music , you can’t expect to be able to use a service ad free for free indefinitely and expect it to be able to survive. I think people are spoiled and want everything for free . I won’t pay for most streaming services just to barely use it . But if it’s a service I use alot I’m willing to pay for it . I wouldn’t even mind ads as long as they don’t interrupt or obscure the video . I do pirate things I don’t think are worth paying for .
I think Youtube premium isn’t worth paying for. Streaming services provide content that cost millions of dollars to produce. Youtube hosts content that someone recorded in his basement in 10 minutes or so.
That’s dumb. They should be able to have a merch store somewhere regardless. If you like them, you should think about giving them some money in some way. Not by only buying premium. This logic makes absolutely no sense to me.
Why buy premium then?
To get rid of ads. To think that premium goes straight to the content creators you love is insane and even if it did… it’s not much.
Premium removes the YouTube-placed ads within the video.
Not an ad. This is literally just like linking the fanshop (say lttstore or gamersnexus shop) in the description.
Rather it should be an option to disable shopping but I doubt google would do the work after integrating it.
Except one is a separate box, has images and is visible whenever (usually hidden due to the description being collapsed) Over all it just takes up extra space, is stuffed in my face and advertises a product
Well, I understand where are you coming from but this is not related to the video so still an ad.
I’m not even following this channel.
Also, no option to disable it afaik.
I’d argue it is related to the video, because the channel who is selling the merch also made the video you are watching.
I am here for a submarine video not for the channel. If I want to support the creator, I can go to Patreon.
I am fine if creators use the description section, but this giant section that I cannot hide, which is made by YouTube, make the difference.
Your argument is like you drink Pepsi why are you upset if you see an ad from Pepsi.
the ad is related to the video. it is also an ad.
I mean it is related to the creator and therefore to the video. An option to disable it would be nice, but I dont think this is as bad as watching actual ads
It’s literally an ad
it’s an ad.
Considering how every single video description is already one giant ad these days, maybe the creators need to chill with their ads.
this is an ad.
That’s a very extreme view, my friend. A lot of Youtubers come up with good products. For example, LevelOneTechs has come up with a pretty good KVM that a lot of mainstream companies haven’t been able to perfect. So I enjoy it when Youtubers advertise their merch.
Dang bro, how much boot can one person lick?
I was so close to getting LTT merch once. Glad I avoided that.
Not that I’m opposed to YouTuber merch tho (owner of a Frank the Snake longboi plush here)
Edit: Looking at the KVM switches, I could go for one tbh. Expensive but I def have a use for it.
I got myself the ltt screwdriver, I love the thing
KVMs feel like they should be better at this point. If I’m paying $500+ so I can just click a button to switch my monitors and inputs between two computers and it only works half the time there is an issue.
The one I would need to get from L1T is $750 and I just can’t justify buying a 3rd KVM when I already got a $400 CKL and a $600 TESmart. I guess I should have just went with the L1T.
Ooh guess you’ll have to adblocker + premium
🤦
Most people see it favorably to actually support creators they follow. Not this guy though, fuck the content creators trying to provide you content and try to make a living out of it.
They’re already getting the YouTube premium revenue and I doubt that they didn’t spend at least 10 seconds advertising it in their videos.
Oh, you have a serious source that indicate how youtube premium revenues are shared between the platform, the right holders, and the content creators, including how it is split between what you watch and what you don’t care about?
According to the YouTube content creator ‘The Spiffing Brit’ the revenue he receives per view from YouTube premium is higher than and revenue. So obviously it does help support the creator, though I’m sure YouTube makes more money off of it.
Being “higher than ad revenue” on YouTube is a stupidly low bar. Ad revenue for videos has been plummeting like a rock for years. That’s why basically every big channel now either has merch, patron, or paid sponsorships / ads recorded by the creator as part of the video completely unrelated to YouTube.
There’s an extension called SponsorBlock that automatically skips past that if you want
Definitely needed.
Sponsorblock only skips the video. This is about the ads on the webpage.
Ah gotcha. My mistake!
I think the people who are most angry about this are those without YouTube Premium.
Does it? Adblockers block these, too. So the people who pay for Youtube Premium are the ones affected, not the ones not paying for it.
Reading the responses here, yes.
It seems to be the principle of the matter, not a reaction from the userbase.
I use revanced. None of youtube’s changes upsets me because I know within hours/days they’ll be patched out.
I know all the private alternatives are useful, but using the google ecosystem directly without dealing with their money grubbing schemes feels like nice way of saying “suck it”
Or don’t use it?
I don’t agree with the commenters in this thread.
An ad is an ad.
I don’t care if they’re for the youtuber’s own stuff. I don’t care what their cut is from youtube premium, they can take that up with youtube. I don’t want to see any ads of any kind if I’m paying for the content. Especially considering how much premium costs.
Disclaimer; I don’t use youtube premium, I use youtube in browsers that allow adblockers, and on android I use firefox with ublock.
I am against abusive youtube ads (long unskippable ads, more than 2 ads per video etc) but to me, merch is fine. Merch allows viewers to directly support youtubers since they get the largest percentage of profit from merc sales vs from youtube views. Many of them take the effort to make their merch ads interesting and funny too.
Has anyone brought up how this is just like tipping? Youtube wants me to pay them (rather than the creator) but they decide how much the creator gets and then if I care about that creators brand I can buy creator merch.
Merch section comes up with uBO as well.
uBO
I have no idea what that means but my first guess is universal body odor?
Ubosoft, maker of games like Far crow, Assassin’s Cricket and Rainbow six chicks.
uBlock Origin
is it only me for who ublock origin does not work anymore? i tried adding filters and updating it
It works for me on Firefox with all other blocking software disabled (YouTube Enhanser and Sponcerblock)
You can enable sponsorblock fine.
It was recommended I disable it by the uBO team. I was getting the warning otherwise.
Right click -> block element
I haven’t seen it yet, but I’ve also been free of those adblock warnings.
FF + ubo
It’s not something g that uBO blocks from my understanding. Very few YouTuber even have it.
Why do you expect people to take this seriously? A YouTuber advertising their merch in a place you had to go to to even see is the dumbest anti-youtube complain I have seen.
YouTube premium does allow adblock, just turn it on
This is iOS app.
Well there’s your problem.
Ye, you did that one to yourself :/
Tho if the EU gets their way you might be able to sideload apps soon-ish
You can side load apps now. For years actually.
oh nice, lets hope op chatches on
