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All this drama, and not ONCE have I had the popup on my YT. (I use Opera combined with their built-in adblocker on mobile and tablet, and uBlock Origin on desktop).

But I don't think the announcement about YT Premium going up in price soon has helped either.

It's anticompetitive as hell. They basically ran YouTube at a loss for closer to two decades than one, until nearly every major competitor in the space folded, and now they're squeezing it with subscriptions and much more obtrusive advertising.

And on top of that, they they're leveraging their monopoly in the user-video space for a foothold in music streaming, fully expecting people to cancel their Spotify or Apple Music subscription for their bundled service. I'd actually maybe consider paying maybe $5/m for just YouTube if they fixed their recommendations, so I could use the Roku and iOS apps without ads (since ad blockers don't work there, and they constantly revert the video quality setting in Safari) but not $15. And I don't want YT Music. Ever.

YT accidentally made ad-block stronger. Now most people (me included) seeking for the best ads-blocker available on the planet and actually pay for it.

I don't mind watching ads at all. But most ads today are out right harmful and should be illegal. Some ads can give me brain cancer right away after first microsecond i see one like hero*** game for example.

This is what happens when they threaten potential customers and pushing peoples around.

@IO+ YT is now throwing so many ads into videos that trying to watch anything on the app or on desktop without an adblocker makes the site unusable. There's also a very good reason why Sponsorblock has gained popularity recently (which I'm very tempted to download and try out now).

Generally ads in general are going trashier I feel than it used to be (so far I'd only see those gross ads when trying to seek some old VB on AXFC uploader -remembering the sweet times the only ds there were innocent advertisings for restaurants and Japanese classes- and once i had a very weird stuff showing up during a phone game)

Moreover it's a pain to see how they act like blackmailing people in the way of letting them "choose" between paying a sum of money or getting gross ads/having their data totally sold even if they sell those anyway, all I can see and fear is mostly the winning of people having the means VS the others, and worst of it, that among the ones willing to pay, you may have those who are nasty and using platforms and social media to provide more misinformation all over the Internet environment

It's wwwwaaaayyyy out of control as you already experience it. Can you imagine 7-10years old kids searching thing (mostly japanese site like axfc) and suddenly gigantic huge boobs and tight panty hentai-ads pop up and that's not even a adult only websites isn't? It just a file hosting service... And yes, you might sometime see youtube ads about children sick with cancer, asking for a donation scams fiasco and i thought... Well, it "WILL" go away very soon but i'm totally wrong... it take a years for YT to realize it "Oh no! this whole entire charities was scram!"

I have no idea what they are doing right now, maybe YT HQ build inside circus or something.