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A comment on Cognitive and Mental Health Correlates of Short-Form Video Use. Parent comment

Re:Cognitive and Mental Health Correlates of Short-Form Vide... by theshackleford on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @05:10PM (#45986001)
> The goal here is to squeeze as much value from you aside from that as possible, measured mostly by two things, really: the direct ad revenue, measured by dollars that go on the balance sheet

There are no ads on a sub, this doesn’t make any sense as such to the parents comment.

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Re:Cognitive and Mental Health Correlates of Short-Form Vide... by pohuing on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @06:34PM (#45986809)
They mean the premium subscription, not channel subscriptions.
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Re:Cognitive and Mental Health Correlates of Short-Form Vide... by theshackleford on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @08:20PM (#45987612)
You don’t get ads with the premium subscription. Have I misunderstood the intent of this correction?
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Re:Cognitive and Mental Health Correlates of Short-Form Vide... by econ on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @08:27PM (#45987657)
They also own the ad slots everywhere else.
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Re:Cognitive and Mental Health Correlates of Short-Form Vide... by piva00 on Thursday November 20, 2025 @03:11AM (#45990193)
You don't get ads on YouTube with a premium sub, your activity data (views, for how long, what topics, what times of the year, of the day, so on and so forth) is still collected, and appended to your profile, the same profile that is used by AdSense to show you ads around the rest of the web.
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