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Re:Get rid of YouTube advertising without Adblocker by prirun on Saturday December 23, 2023 @11:38AM (#38745485)
Anyone who knows the history of cable TV (or today's streaming services for that matter) will know that paying to turn off ads is great, until Google gets entrenched enough that they can put ads back in for paying subscribers.
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Re:Get rid of YouTube advertising without Adblocker by okdood64 on Saturday December 23, 2023 @12:06PM (#38745763)
> until Google gets entrenched enough that they can put ads back in for paying subscribers.

I keep seeing this repeated, and this has never been a valid argument, even if this may end up being true.

You can cancel when that happens.

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Re:Get rid of YouTube advertising without Adblocker by tmtvl on Saturday December 23, 2023 @11:42AM (#38745512)
But then there's no value in Premium, how could they sell it then?
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