[ylhert]

It's wild to me how much Youtube TV costs and yet they still serve you tons of ads. Coming from youtube premium where occasionally I have to skip through a preroll ad, I forget how much you are bombarded with ads while watching traditional TV. The fact that you have to pay the princely sum of $73/month on top of that boggles my mind. I canceled when they raised the price from $35/month and I'll never go back at these prices...

[squeaky-clean]

Just because lots of people seem to be getting confused, "pre-roll ad" isn't the right term for this. Pre-roll is one of those ads YouTube forces you to watch 5-30 seconds of before you can skip it, and when they play before the video starts. Mid-roll ads are the same thing, but interrupting the middle of the video. And Post-roll are ones that play after the video is over.

What you're referring to are usually called sponsored segments. They're ads, but they're just a part of the video file you're being served. They're not dynamically targeted or cycled out. So if a LTT video is sponsored by ASUS, every viewer will see the same sponsored bit about ASUS because as far as youtube knows, it's a genuine part of your video, not a slot for an ad bid.

They're still annoying, but it's not a pre-roll ad. You don't get those with Premium.

[bagels]

Thanks for clarifying. I was worried that the parent was actually seeing real pre-roll ads with the subscription that would eventually get rolled out to everyone.

[choppaface]

Doesn’t matter how the pre-roll ad is served or who is serving it. The customer wants to pay for no ads, and that includes removing ads otherwise embedded into the video. The fact that ads people see this as out-of-scope demonstrates how little ads people want to make a product that users want. It’s all about burning the dumb money of advertisers and abusing the users along the way.

[GenerocUsername]

Hopefully OP understands this, but I can confirm folks like my parents do not distinguish the difference. It's mind boggling

[TrinaryWorksToo]

You can use SponsorBlock to skip those.

[solardev]

FWIW https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-y... is a crowdsourced way to skip past promos (by timestamp).

Or some creators have moved to Nebula, which seems to have less of that crap but IMO a worse UI than YouTube.

[mcast]

I really appreciate creators who add chapters to their YouTube videos, especially their sponsorship advertisements, since you can easily skip over them.

[a_JIT_pie]

I enjoy this with the Youtube ReVanced app. It's an amazing feature on top of regular ad blocking. I can never go back to regular YouTube.

[vishwajeetv]

I wish there was AI + crowdsourced extension as such.

[IntelMiner]

While I like Nebula on premise, it seems creators on it are getting 'lazier' and some of the people on the site are downright questionable ("TL;DR News" and "Therapist Reacts" being the biggest offenders for me)

Like, why am I paying Nebula for this garbage? https://i.imgur.com/itiLYbK.png

[daveidol]

> youtube premium where occasionally I have to skip through a preroll ad

I thought YouTube Premium was ad-free?

[banana_giraffe]

It's free of ads from YouTube. Plenty of videos have baked in ads from the content creators themselves.

[Aurornis]

Parent comment was comparing YouTube TV to YouTube Premium.

Two different products. YouTube Premium removes the YouTube-inserted ads.

YouTube TV is a different product. It tries to compete with cable and satellite TV (which also serve ads despite hefty monthly fees)

[colechristensen]

Yup, cable TV is ridiculous.

Streaming, however, is doing just fine catching up with costs and playing with "ad supported" pricing levels which is only expected to spread.

We're in the "eternal September" of streaming, it's only going to get worse from here.

[paxys]

Compare it with a cable subscription, not YouTube Premium.

[giancarlostoro]

I was a Google Music All Access member since day 1 or whatever, they grandfathered me into YouTube Premium ('Red' at the time) and I was okay with that. Then my card expired, they cancelled my Music All Access, and when I re-enabled it, I no longer had YouTube Premium, I had to all of a sudden go out of my way to pay an extra $9 a month for it. I went with Apple Music as soon as I went iPhone and have not bothered to pay Google anymore. All Music Access was amazing, forcing me to YouTube is a poor choice that had they not gone that route I would still be on All Music Access. Apple One is superior in many ways anyway. I rather not be with a company that re-brands existing services then axes them when there's zero need to do so.

[NegativeK]

My significant other watches sports, so the comparison to YT Premium doesn't count for us. It was either be subjected to ads and pay a lot of money or be subjected to ads and pay a medium-small amount of money.

But as someone who has never paid for cable TV before, I agree that it's jarring. Our trick is to only watch things we've marked to be recorded, which allows ad skipping. (On demand and live don't allow skipping. Starting a sportsball game an hour late gives plenty of buffer.)

[altdataseller]

Plus they always seem to be taking away channels too. Here in NY, they removed SNY. It’s like ok if you’re raising prices, make sure you aren’t taking things away!

[redeeman]

install yourself an adblocker and see no ads :)

[jjoonathan]

You won't have to go back, youtube premium will bring the enshitification to your door over the coming decade or so.

[secondcoming]

You still endured ads with YT Premium!? That's shocking if true.

[FanaHOVA]

He just means promos by creators, not YT ads.