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YouTube ads have completely ruined my sleep [discussion]
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YouTube ads have completely ruined my sleep [discussion]

Ever since YouTube added mid-roll and end-roll ads, I get woken up at the end of pretty much every ASMR video by some super loud ad.

Multiple creators that I follow have said this is mandatory and they cannot take them off of their videos. There are often ads throughout the video. I can barely sleep :(

YouTube Premium is super, super expensive. It costs $17 CAD ($12.50 USD) a month and there isn’t an annual option. This is because it comes with a bunch of things I don’t care about such as YouTube Music (I already have Spotify - I don’t need an additional inferior service for this) and downloading videos - I only want no ads. The cost is more than most streaming services despite the fact that YouTube does not need to pay the creators (like Netflix would to use a TV show). They get all of this money and pay nothing except cost to keep the site running.

I would be ok to pay for it if they were sending this additional money to creators but creators routinely speak out about YouTube paying them less than ever. My money is just going to YouTube.

I also don’t want to buy the subscription since it seems like I am “rewarding bad behaviour”.

It seems that YouTube is taking advantage of its users AND creators.