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Google confirms YouTube Music issue with Premium users hearing surprise ads (www.androidauthority.com)
submitted 2 hours ago by ryujin470@fedia.io to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] MushuChupacabra@piefed.world 29 points 1 hour ago

Google confirms YouTube Music Issue with Premium users getting angry at their advertising injection attempt.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 42 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

“Surprise”

[–] digitalFatteh@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

It’s a ‘Feature’ 😏

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 hour ago

Oops, that test hit 80% of customers, was supposed to be 20%.

[–] 1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 9 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

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.

[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 1 points 11 minutes ago

Premium Lite is already a thing.

[–] jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev 3 points 53 minutes ago (2 children)

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

[–] 1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 1 points 13 minutes ago

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

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 31 minutes ago

"No midrolls"

[–] tyler@programming.dev 9 points 1 hour ago

Now could they please fix the blatant advertisements disguised as “Featured” bullshit? I have zero interest in football, I’ve marked it as don’t show me a billion times.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 points 25 minutes ago

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.

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Don't use Youtube if you're going to be giving them a cent. Ublock Origin on PC works well enough, Newpipe is good for Android devices. Newpipe has every single feature that I ever had to see a Youtube premium ad for, and I'm not exaggerating in the slightest.

[–] Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 2 points 22 minutes ago* (last edited 22 minutes ago) (1 children)

Metrolist for Android, yt music only.

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 1 points 14 minutes ago

Interesting. I'd never heard of it. Good to know.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

Closed as WAI. They were testing the waters.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Is the issue that there are people paying for YouTube Premium?