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Google warns users of these apps that their experience may deteriorate soon. They may "experience buffering issues" or see errors such as "the following content is not available on this app" when trying to watch videos.

Similar to Google Search, ads have become insufferable for many users of the service. There are too many of them, they may break the viewing experience, and they may show inappropriate content.

YouTube Premium is expensive. What weights more for some users is that its functionality is severely limited when compared to third-party apps.

The cat and mouse game continues.

For those looking to avoid ads or improve privacy, here are some options for free, open source, privacy-friendly frontends to YouTube without advertisements:

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/frontends/#youtube

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[–] baru@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Loads of videos have ads in there. They're put in there by the content creators. This as YouTube doesn't pay enough. YouTube premium doesn't block those.

It's strange that you haven't noticed those.

[–] slumberlust@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Loads of videos don't have those either. I watched three to four car repair videos yesterday and none had sponsored segments.

Some of my followed creators have them, but they are the minority. I'd love to see some overall stats, as my experience may not be the norm.