Probably the lower tier of premium that’s being tested in Germany.

https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-premium-lite-returns-3491193/

Imagine paying money to see 2 fucking ads before a video.

Fucking called it

The only time I've had an ad on YouTube with premium(on their site) is when I went in to invisible mode.

In my opinion it's absolutely stupid that invisible mode has the capability of detecting that you have an account because it skips the age verification blocker on content-sensitive videos, but it gives ads to people with premium. It's obviously able to see that you have a YouTube account so therefore it should be able to just do the next step of saying okay does this account have premium. The only thing people are asking for was it to not log the videos they're watching but they had to make it some Next Generation NASA level secret hidden profile shit that doesn't actually do anything.

Also it really bugs me that they've added ads for YouTube and beds on discord. If I have my YouTube account linked to my Discord account I should not receive ads on the in bed. It should be able to see my YouTube account via electrons cookie system and be able to link it to an account that has premium.

Ugh, you didn't even pay for Premium Plus?

Bloody peasant...

Firefox with ad blocker? You are wasting your money.

What is the benefit of premium if you still have to watch ads?

And this is why i,won't start paying them money. They will never be content and will just keep pushing ads further and further.

This is why you get anti-anti-adblock userscripts in tampermonkey inside of your browser and/or the same inside of adguard for windows. Along with an adblocking DNS

Give them an inch and they'll take 1000 miles. No more money for google, ever.

If I'm paying monthly for a service without ads and I see a single (1) advertisement, I should at least get a month of free subscription because the other party is in breach of contract.

The second I get an ad on premium I cancel my subscription. Blocking ads on apple tv wasn’t easy, but Ill find a way

I feel like you don't fully understand that the line can go up. At the expense of everything...

• Web: Firefox + uBlock Origin
• Mobile (Android only): Grayjay
• TV (Android): Smarttube
• iPhone/iPad: Brave Browser

Enjoy

I have premium too once I saw an ad and complained and it turned out to be a bug. I even had engineers reach out with questions when they were fixing the issue.

Maybe that has happened here? They have announced any changes.

How is this a shitpost? Is it a fake screenshot?

YouTube ads cost about $0.026 (two and a half cents) per 30 seconds of viewing. This is called cpv.

It's not fair that ss a viewer I'm not able to bid on my own to show myself an empty ad slot. I'm looking at the price of premium and it definitely seems like more revenue for YouTube than I'd give them from ads.

these posts are just getting ridiculous. USE. BRAVE. OR. FIREFOX.

If it’s true and I get ads on my Premium (which.. to be fair I’m not paying full price anyway 😅), it may be the last push I needed to finally start reading books again..

I get ads on premium sometimes. I think it's a fluke but def unacceptable

raises the question why pay for premium

For everyone on Android, you can just patch the youtube app using ReVanced, which will remove ads, add sponsorblock, allow you to hide shorts and the "People also watched" sections. It can be pretty tricky to patch if you don't know what you're doing so feel free to tell me if you run into any issues.

If you don't care about the algorithm and your feed, you can get the third-party client NewPipe, it's FOSS ~~but sometimes crashes while reading some videos~~ It does not seem to crash anymore, so good thing!

Pick one!

It's probably a bug. And to excuse the devs at Youtube, this is the first and only Premium client.

Check if you still have premium?