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Re:I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's "... by riddley on Sunday March 01, 2026 @10:19AM (#47207479)
No Lite! about it. I've twice unsubbed from YTP because they started showing me ads. Never again.
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Re:I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's "... by SoftTalker on Sunday March 01, 2026 @11:50AM (#47208348)
I've never seen an ad logged in to Premium. Content creators do sometimes insert sponsor segments directly into the video, but YTP offers a skip feature that works fairly well.
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Re:I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's "... by golem14 on Sunday March 01, 2026 @01:32PM (#47209372)
They do sneak it in when a blog etc plays an embedded YT video. It treats that as non-signed-in, you have to stop playing and continue on YT to avoid ads in that scenario.
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Re:I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's "... by riddley on Monday March 02, 2026 @10:16AM (#47219040)
I've seen ads on the YT app for the nVidia Shield TV in multiple places. Sometimes ad-roll before/during a video sometimes as the first result in a search.
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