“Surprise”
It’s a ‘Feature’ 😏
Oops, that test hit 80% of customers, was supposed to be 20%.
Gemini was crashing for days, YouTube went down, Youtube music Premium is playing ads, sheesh. Guess vibe coding isn’t working
“accidently on purpose”
Give it six months, maybe a year. There WILL be ads in YouTube premium and you’ll have to pay another premium on top of that for ad free.
Premium Lite is already a thing.
Premium Pro
Like the stupid duolingo pro and the pro max thing…and the pro max is just an extra fee to talk to an AI.
This only makes sense if watching for free with ads wasnt an option, if they wanted more money they would just raise the cost of premium
I mean, this exact thing has already happened with other services. Hulu used to have a free ad supported tier and a paid ad free tier, for example
I guess the other difference is that YouTube isn’t traditional media, the content you consume on there has no exclusivity or anything. And the creators producing it are incentivized to go where the biggest audience is (which will always be something free) to maintain relevance and gain bigger sponsorships
Something like Netflix, Hulu, Prime, etc. pays for the content in advance with MAYBE some royalties (and never a lot) and they own the media produced. YouTube doesn’t pay for production (they tried this and it failed horrifically) they pay a portion of the revenue that gets generated from viewership
I remember noticing YouTube’s software quality taking a nosedive when they shoved Shorts into the app. At the time, it seemed like it was hastily done as a reaction to TikTok’s explosion, but it’s still a buggy POS , even after all these years.
prenium was originally to get people off of using adblockers, nothing more it was always going to come down to forced ads one way or another.
Google stealthing premium users lol
Lol, there should be a law that if you pay for a service advertised as ad free, they have to refund you a month of service for each ad they show you.
Consumer protection laws probably do apply. Ask for a refund and cite whatever laws apply to ‘product not as described’.
I live in the US, what are consumer protection laws?
Trump says consumer protection laws cost us money silly, we don’t need them.
Let’s not pretend that the US’ lax consumer protection laws have anything to do with Trump. The political elites have been helping the wealthy and corporations hinder those long before that dumbass ever ran for office.
I don’t know, I am going to have to call BS on the idea that Kamala Harris would have dismantled the consumer protection bureau. On the other hand the Republicans have been trying to hamper it for awhile.
I agree that ultimately corporations are going to call the shots and they wanted it gone.
With billionaires now openly buying politicians (instead of greasing their palms under the counter), I’d say the odds of such a law have become even worse.
Paramount gets confused about who is ad free too. You have to restart the app to fix it. I just got the ad version cause why bother if I get ads and can’t fast forward or rewind anyhow?
Google confirms YouTube Music Issue with Premium users getting angry at their advertising injection attempt.
No joke, this is exactly why I cancelled Spotify and went back to piracy!
They “”accidentally“” started playing ads one night, didn’t apologize or offer any refunds, and it was the easiest decision ever to dust off my pirate hat and not look back.
No regrets!
So much better listening to music I chose and actually enjoy.
And the app had so much garbage and bullshit put in it that it was slow and horrible to use. I downloaded musicolet and its miles faster than Spotify aids
First time seeing musicolet mentioned in the wild, cool!
Oops, we accidentally ripped you off, again.
They also for a long while showed ads in the interface despite premium. I confirmed with support thes cancelled.
Is the issue that there are people paying for YouTube Premium?
The amount of people who suggest YouTube Music when asked for alternatives to Spotify is absolutely mind boggling. Legitimately feels like some people have no self-preservation skills.
Soon as they start playing a mili second of ads on premium I’m fucking gone. Ill just use Ublock and tell Google to go fuck themselves.
I pay out of convenience as it is, as soon as they make my experience even slightly more shitty I’m out.
I will deal with the headache of ad blockers. And I’ll just pay for a better music service .
Your move Sundar.
