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YouTube wants to hear your complaints about its Premium subscription

9to5google.com YouTube wants to hear your complaints about its Premium subscription

As it has done for smart TVs and Music, YouTube is now asking for feedback about YouTube Premium with a poll on top issues and complaints...

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Why do they ask for feedback for their platform ... on another platform? I don't have a ~~Twat~~ Twitter account and I don't intend to ever create one.
- Yes, I went there to take part and they're using fucking twitter? Makes me think this is fake.
Sponsorblock is not included, thus it provides an inferior experience to newpipe x sponsorblock or libretube.
- I get why people choose to use tools like this, but I'm personally against SponsorBlock. Sponsors usually pay the content creator a LOT better than YouTube does, and the deals they offer to content creators can go up or down depending on the retention rate during the sponsored segments of previous videos.
  
  That said, I still manually skip sponsored segments in anything I watch, usually. I'm not gonna pretend to be all high and mighty and act like I sit through every ad and that you should, too. But I'd rather do it manually, so that I can at the very least think about how bad I should feel for ruining their metrics. And also so that if they're a short one that I don't mind sitting through, or if I've stepped away from my screen while the video's playing, that they still get their playback metrics for the ad.
  
  Someone else's income is not my problem. Ads are my problem. I support my favorite youtubers with merch buys. I don't give a fuck about the products they hawk for money, how much they make, or how it sustains them. If the model doesn't work, then get a new model or die -- I don't care.
  
  My home is an ad free zone. I pay for Premium and I’d pay for no commercials, but since that isn’t an option, I block them.
  
  This war on SponsorBlock is reminiscent of the 80s and the war on VCRs. Advertisers tried to make taping things illegal because they argued people would fast forward through commercials. They were right, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have the right to choose what we watch.
  
  I understand your point. But still, I have to use sponsorblock. Some content creators have an insane amount of advertising. I would not watch them at all without Sponsorblock. Maybe my view does not make money for them, but atleast it's good for their metrics.
  
  This is the level-headed reply I was hoping for.
  
  Also, sometimes sponsors have genuinely good products.
  
  Karl Jobst had a Geologie sponsor which helped my skin clear up a bit.
  
  Recently LTT had a WickedCushions sponsor which I’m hoping will work better for my headphones than my Chinese knock-off ones. I want cloth padding, not leather padding, for my headset, and the ones I got don’t snap in place like the official ones. Hoping WickedCushions are better. They’re arriving today.
  
  Lastly, some of the sponsor segues and spots themselves are just plain funny and add to the content. Karl Jobst with Raid Shadow Legends, Internet Comment Etiquette and Internet Historian with NordVPN, most of LTT’s sponsors, etc.
- Sponsors are not YouTube's responsibility and they dont see money from it.
  
  While it might increase Premium subscription rates, creators will be driven even further away from YouTube - if your content isnt ad monitised, and sponsors are getting blocked, why even upload?
  
  I very much believe they are Youtube's responsibility. I pay to see no ads, so I don't wanna see ads. Full stop. I am not sure how true this is, but creators say that when YT Premium subscribers watch they get more revenue. With that they should be required to mark sponsor segments which get automatically skipped for Premium subscribers.
  
  Also I started using sponsorblock only one year ago because I think within the last few years lots of creators have overstepped the mark whats tollerable for me (promoting scams, sponsors taking up 1/3 of the video, ...)
Stadia asked for user feedback via multiple surveys. Users asked for more AAA games.

Google shut Stadia down.

Now what is Google going to do with YouTube?
- Now what is Google going to do with YouTube?
  
  Run even more ads in the non-premium version, I'd wager.
- Now what is Google going to do with YouTube?
  
  Hopefully keep Phil Harrison far, far away from it.
Can't complain, I don't use it

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