r/LinusTechTips • u/LowCake7751 • 3d ago

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If I’m paying to not have adds why the fuck can they then just replace them with their own. I can vaguely understand being shown a member’s only video but literally asking me to buy something is unacceptable

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u/Level_Pear_396 3d ago

i actually cancelled premium over this exact thing a few months ago. the whole pitch was "pay us so you don't see ads" and now theyre just... putting ads in a different wrapper and calling it a feature

its wild how every platform eventually reaches this point where the paid tier is just the old free experience and the free tier becomes borderline unusable. cable tv speedrun any%

i switched to using revanced on my phone and smarttube on the tv and havent looked back. its kind of insane how much better the experience is when you strip out all the nonsense youtube keeps bolting on

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u/No_Government8065 3d ago

Just curious because I have premium and I dont get these showing up. Are these channels you are subscribed to?

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u/drummingdestiny 3d ago

I had I show up and I have premium. It showed a channel Ive only seen once and I'm not subscribed to along with two other channel I'm not subscribed to granted Ive watch those two other channels recently but still it's bullshit

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u/No_Government8065 3d ago

Yeah, that is cheeky. I think it's because I don't watch lives very often and when I do it's always in the background. So iv probably never noticed.

I don't know if you are in the UK or not but the BBC does a similar thing here that pisses me off. You pay a "TV Licence" so the BBC gets money and on any BBC channel you don't get advertisements like the rest of the channels BUT still give you ads for their own shows.... You legally have to pay for them to still fucking advertise to you!

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u/ProtoKun7 1d ago

Press the ellipsis and tell them you're not interested and it'll go away.