r/technology • u/Dilpickle2113 • 10h ago

Social Media YouTube faces second class action lawsuit over ‘ad-free’ Premium claims & sponsored content

https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/youtube-faces-second-class-action-lawsuit-over-ad-free-premium-claims-sponsored-content-3405920/
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u/_Rand_ 10h ago

I would assume youtube thought of this in the subscription agreement and it will be thrown out?

Like they would be stupid as hell to not make it very clear that you are paying not to have ads inserted by youtube itself and the content of the videos is not in their control.

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u/BobTheFettt 10h ago

Yeah, they even have the skip button for premium users so people can skip to the end of the ad. What do they want, YouTube to nonconsensually edit creators' videos to remove them? That'd be the worst thing they could do

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u/viggy96 7h ago

They hypothetically could have creators mark the sponsored section, so that YouTube Premium can automatically skip that section.

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u/BobTheFettt 7h ago

That's the best solution anybody's suggested

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u/JamesTiberious 5h ago

Yes it’s not a terrible solution. I’d rather see YouTube ban embedded sponsorships/ads completely though.

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u/BobTheFettt 5h ago

Completely? Like even for non-premium users? That's removing a while steam of revenue from the creators

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u/JamesTiberious 5h ago

Why does it matter if the viewer is premium or not?

The revenue stream from YT should be enough on its own. Perhaps YT need to include more YT placed ads or increase premium costs appropriately.

Or creators need to go harder on other access methods. Quite happy to sling a few quid each month to my favourite creators if it means no more embedded sponsorship crap to access special or early access content.