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Re:Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide by tachyonbeam on Saturday March 23, 2019 @06:38PM (#19472715)
YouTube has definitely become more and more ad-ridden since its inceptions, and the ads are definitely personalized (though badly). There are now videos with multiple ad interruptions, a bit like ye olde TV. I do think one difference here is that on YouTube, if a video is full of ads, I won't keep watching long unless the content is solid and interesting. I, as a watcher, have a choice as to what I watch. Though of course, YouTube could fix that by imposing the same amount of ads on all videos.
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Re:Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide by assblaster on Saturday March 23, 2019 @08:23PM (#19473154)
I use YouTube Red, no ads, ever. And you get access to the entire Google music library.

Can't beat it for $7.99/month.

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Re:Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide by biglenny on Saturday March 23, 2019 @08:31PM (#19473212)
I use uBlock Origin. No ads, ever. And you get access to all the music uploaded to YouTube.

$0.00/month

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Re:Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide by userbinator on Saturday March 23, 2019 @10:04PM (#19473668)
For many years I've used a few shell scripts to turn YouTube into a "radio" of sorts, basically going through search results for a specific term (usually a music genre) and playing each one. It works pretty well, and the only ad-like experience is when it decides to play something not-really-related-nor-actually-music that just showed up in the results, but IMHO the "what was that?" aspect is part of the fun.

I'm clearly not the only one who came up with such an idea:

https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube

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Re:Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide by gtirloni on Saturday March 23, 2019 @08:53PM (#19473326)
It makes me sad your comment is being downvoted. If people aren't happy with ads, they aren't happy paying for anything, then what's the alternative? I don't see any. Those people need to get paid for their work somehow.
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Re:Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide by zuppy on Sunday March 24, 2019 @01:34AM (#19474584)
...or he got downvoted because it’s a solution that doesn’t work for all (I haven’t downvoted). I tried to subscribe to premium, but there’s no such option for me. It’s not available in my country.
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Re:Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide by msla on Saturday March 23, 2019 @09:45PM (#19473589)
It's getting downvoted because paid options grow ads, like most cable channels did. (Not all of them. I think TCM is still ad-free.)

Plus, a comment sibling to this one said YouTube Red has ads, so there's that.

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Re:Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide by gtirloni on Saturday March 23, 2019 @09:56PM (#19473635)
What does grow ads mean? FUD?

YouTube Premium is ad-free, it says so in their frontpage. Are you saying that's a blatant lie?

That doesn't address my point that content producers should get paid.

From YouTube Premium ad: "Ad-free YouTube, and our new music streaming service, YouTube Music. Services: No ads, Downloads, Background play."

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Re:Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide by spudlyo on Saturday March 23, 2019 @09:44PM (#19473583)
It's YouTube Premium now, and it's $11.99/month. Also, without resorting to APK hacks I don't think it's possible to use on my Amazon Fire Stick. Otherwise I'd love to pay for YouTube to watch YouTube without advertisements.
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Re:Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide by PKop on Saturday March 23, 2019 @11:04PM (#19473946)
On Fire TV you can use the web version of Youtube in the browser (Silk or Firefox) and it works pretty well as it's formatted for the larger screen. I'm not sure if this doesn't apply to Fire Stick.
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Re:Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide by spudlyo on Sunday March 24, 2019 @12:17AM (#19474281)
Ah, for some reason I just assumed that YouTube Premium didn't work with Firefox, which is what I use now, and you had to have the native Android App. I think the problem I had the last time I tried this had to do with the fact that I had a YouTube creator account, and Red wouldn't work with it.

Anyway, now I'm putting my money where my mouth is and am happily watching ad free YouTube content (which I love dearly) on my TV. Totally worth it.

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Re:Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide by PKop on Monday March 25, 2019 @05:31PM (#19486919)
Don't forget about Google Music as well. Overall a pretty solid subscription package.
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Re:Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide by matz1 on Saturday March 23, 2019 @09:15PM (#19473436)
I have red, still plenty of ads.
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Re:Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide by totoglazer on Saturday March 23, 2019 @10:42PM (#19473847)
What? I’ve had YouTube premium for well over a year and literally never seen an ad that wasn’t part of the actual video I was watching, added by the creator.
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Re:Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide by matz1 on Saturday March 23, 2019 @11:21PM (#19474025)
Ad thats part of the actual video is an ad too.
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Re:Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide by teddyfrozevelt on Saturday March 23, 2019 @11:42PM (#19474130)
That obviously doesn’t count, as there really isn’t anything YouTube can do about that.
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Re:Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide by anticensor on Sunday March 24, 2019 @01:53AM (#19474663)
Google could respond by forcing them into an AdWords-like program and making embedded ads unskippable.
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Re:Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide by matz1 on Sunday March 24, 2019 @08:46AM (#19476027)
That absolutely count. Youtube can ban this kind of video.
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Re:Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide by spudlyo on Sunday March 24, 2019 @12:21AM (#19474290)
... which you can pretty easily fast forward through.
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Re:Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide by zwkrt on Saturday March 23, 2019 @06:49PM (#19472761)
Just today I swear I was served an ad that didn't have a yellow bar, so we can all look forward to that hell. At least cable is produced to have ad breaks that make sense, as opposed to cutting sentences in half.
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Re:Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide by Waterluvian on Saturday March 23, 2019 @07:03PM (#19472813)
What's the point of the yellow bars? I'm a little surprised they exist in the first place. What were they added in response to?
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Re:Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide by therealx on Saturday March 23, 2019 @10:31PM (#19473796)
To let you skip the ad before it's over. You typically have to wait a few seconds but it's less than the full wait.
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Re:Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide by pjc50 on Saturday March 23, 2019 @07:04PM (#19472818)
Adblockers (and youtube-dl and newpipe) still work on youtube, fortunately. It'll be a sad day when they ban those.
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Re:Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide by bufferoverflow on Sunday March 24, 2019 @01:46AM (#19474633)
In the last two weeks youtube started having problems with uBlock. If it's on, youtube refuses to play videos that have ads on. At least for me. Maybe they are testing the ad-block-blockers, and I'm one of the subjects.
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Re:Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide by 14 on Sunday March 24, 2019 @03:09AM (#19474902)
any videos in particular not having any issues myself
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Re:Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide by jchw on Saturday March 23, 2019 @07:24PM (#19472894)
youtube-dl already violates the ToS, of pretty much any service it supports. But I doubt it'll ever make up a noticeable amount of traffic and it's certainly very useful, so my personal bet is tools like this will mostly continue to work unless they somehow become a threat to services in some way.
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Re:Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide by Wowfunhappy on Sunday March 24, 2019 @02:04AM (#19474698)
Of course, Youtube is free, unless you have a Youtube Red subscription, in which case you don't see ads.

And the fact of the matter is, the ads they do have don't produce enough revenue to support most creators.

I suppose you could argue that's because Google's cut is too high, but in Youtube's case (as opposed to, say, Apple's App Store), I feel Google is providing a substantial service—hosting, encoding, and distributing a huge amount of data.

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Re:Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide by mancerayder on Saturday March 23, 2019 @09:32PM (#19473515)
I pay for Premium because I have zero tolerance for ads. I think PBS Eons, Kurgesacht, Rogan podcasts and random searches for stand-up are worth their weight in gold. I'll pass on insurance and web design ads, thanks.
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Re:Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide by pier25 on Sunday March 24, 2019 @11:13AM (#19476774)
I have a Play Music subscription which includes YouTube Red. I haven't seen an ad in years.
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