Exactly, I've been stealing magazines from the grocery store for the last 30 years because the magazines have ads in them. It isn't fair to my personal belief and so I can do whatever I want.
Lots of people seem to feel like they are being ripped off that videos still contain sponsored segments when paying for YT Premium. I don't really get it but it seems common on HN.
Maybe because those sponsored segments are literally ads. The whole value proposition of YT Premium was that I pay to remove ads and YT pays the creators I watch so they don't need to do that crap.
YT has nothing to do with them and imo there's no reasonable policy line to draw between the many forms of native advertising with their varying levels of invasiveness, nor should we really want YT to be the arbiter.
You also have never been required to watch them! I just right arrow a couple of times but if you want it automated you can just use SponsorBlock and feel content that in exchange the creator is getting extra revenue from your Premium subscription.
you want YouTube to interfere with the content of videos even more than they do now? how much assurance do you want that a video doesn't have any sponsorship? a human viewing each video before it goes on to the CDN? affadvit from the poster that they didn't receive money from any VPN company before mentioning a VPN? why are you blaming YouTube for the poor quality content you're choosing to watch, instead of not watching it or blaming the creator?
You understand we are talking about Google Ads right? Of course they are double-dipping; they use your YT premium video info as more fuel for their internet-spanning ad network megalith. They don't need to show you ads in the videos themselves to be double-dipping.
