I started a free trial and cancelled it immediately to have no ads while on holiday. Didn’t realize they are offering some illusion of achievements as a “reward” for your attention, doubling as a FOMO weapon for when you want to quit.

        • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          I disagree. The main reason to adblock is to stop data collection and such for targeted advertising. Sponsors aren’t targeted and are one of the ethical ways content creators make money. Basically none of the sponsorship goes to YouTube

          • dumbass@leminal.space
            2·
            9 months ago

            Yeah, but I don’t want to hear each youtubers cover over the same ad prompt. Plus the youtuber got paid for the ad read already, so me skipping a sponsor read is perfectly fine, I wasn’t gonna click their link anyway.

  • Melkath@kbin.social
    1·
    9 months ago

    I had premium… until they started glitching my songs out because every time an ad would have played, they just skipped 15 seconds of the song, and since an ad never played, the trigger never got disarmed, and all of my songs would play for 5 seconds, then skip 15 seconds.

    I was willing to pay to rid my life of ads, but instead I just got glitchy garbled music.

    • Donut@leminal.spaceOPEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Wow that sounds atrocious. Music glitching is such a mood killer. Hope you’re in a better place today.