I pay for YouTube's premium service and I don't get ads either.

I do the same. I am a little annoyed that I can’t pay for ad-free Youtube without also buying YouTube Music, which I didn’t need.

Content costs money, and if I don’t want ads, I need to pay the difference. I where a little surprised to see Linus Tech Tips break down they income and showing that Youtube Premium as significant source of revenue.

I think it’s they’re intrinsically baked together as YouTube has had to license music for all those YouTube music videos, which are hugely popular as you could imagine.

Yeah. I don't use YouTube Music and don't care about downloading or background playback, so I'm not ready to pay $11.99/month just to hide ads.

As a music listener I love YouTube music app, it's great being able to listen to almost anything I want in high quality any time.

I tried a couple years ago, but didn't like it that much. Ended up going back to spotify.

I remember trying to get the Guardians of the Galaxy awesome mix, and it only had a youtube video with all songs glued together. Also, it was a bit weird experience overall because they matched so many random videos

When I tried it, I couldn't deal with it auto-generating a 'related' playlist whenever I played anything. (I pay for YT Premium, so if I could use YT Music then I wouldn't have to pay for Spotify.) How did you deal with that problem?

To get around that go to the artist and start a song from their top playlist or an album and it will just play their songs.

It is great, I just didn’t want it originally, but now that I paying for it I’ve started using it a fair bit.

I do too and pay everywhere I can for the services that I use. The world would be a far better place if it didn’t need ad support, and the only alternative that so far works at all is direct payment.

Along these lines, why doesn't google introduce a paid search service without ads? My hunch is that no matter the price point, it would be a huge revenue hit compared to actual advertising payments.

My other hunch is that it would make the non ad-free experience greatly cheapened in the eyes of the consumer, in the same way youtube with ads feels different after experiencing youtube premium.

Because if you allow a paid option, all the people worth advertising to switch to that, and now the advertising portion of the business is worth a lot less.

They’re betting they can get more out of advertisers than paying subscribers.

They have Google Workspace, which is pretty similar, but more focused on small businesses.

Pro tip: on iOS most adblockers will block YouTube ads so long as you use youtube.com in the browser, not the YouTube app.

YouTube in the browser has almost all features of the app now, so there's no compelling reason to use the YouTube app.

+1 to this. I haven't seen ads for years until I switched to M1 macs and had to use safari for a while.

There are content blockers for safari.

There is on mobile and there's so much nowadays that I had to stop clicking video links on my phone.

You can use Youtube Vanced (Youtube Advance without the Ad) on your phone. I can not recommend it enough. It also supports "Sponsor blocker". It's the best app for youtube addicts.

I was fine with a small amount of ads but yeah I guess I'll have to try it now.

The irony is that I was a Google Play Music subscriber until its death but in my country you still had the Youtube ads.

You can have ublock origin on firefox mobile.

I use it to but I use a manual blocker with my own lists. I can't find a way to block YouTube ads.