Can you, though? Because I remember when DVB started in Europe, they’ve sent a signal during commercials that makes your device block the fast forward feature.

I don’t know whether that’s still a thing. But you needed a hacked firmware on your TV / set top box to allow to FFWD through commercials back then.

True, but my point was that even a lot of the commercial websites that do have other products do not depend on ads, e.g. Amazon and all the other stores would still be there, every company offering a paid service would still be there, every company providing a service related to their RL goods (e.g. specs, drivers, product descriptions, lists of stores where you can buy them,...) would still be there.

Advertising does not finance a very large percentage of the useful parts of the internet. And among those advertising financed websites that are useful a lot are essentially duplicates to get a chunk of the ad revenue without doing a lot of work (e.g. almost all news websites that just republish AP, Reuters,... content).

Yes but uses your Google login and is basically a wrapped YouTube clone.

There is no end to the greed of those with millions and especially billions and they aren't content to just keep running a profitable business, they have to get all the money.

This is just the history of humanity and finances forever, the one saving grace in all this is every big business gets complacent in its money making and seeks ever increasing profit (and becomes management heavy) until a young upstart finds a way to do it a lot better and cheaper and disrupts the market. Google has become the big lumbering unable to change organisation seeking maximum profit now, its become IBM.

correct me if I'm wrong, but I think ublock origin updates quickly enough to remove these notifications before most users see them

My ublock origin was having issues today

time to open Freetube and paste the link

I’ve been using Ublock origin for years

Same here. I started seeing them this week.

Youtube has ads?

And with that I can confirm I will continue to use adblock.

I don't even login so I don't know what they are going to disable.

I just had all the music on my phone

(https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases)

Imagine paying for "Premium Lite"

And it's better for people who want to listen to more than just a few songs, for people who need an organized collections, playlists, etc. In other words, for those who need a music streaming service. YouTube isn't one.

Youtube Music is pretty much just youtube with a different UI

Lmao, what? YouTube Music is essentially Spotify with the ability to add YouTube videos to your playlists. It has an enormous music library comparable to other streaming services, it's not "youtube with a different ui".

Wait so you pay for premium and still get ads?

It's a sad state of affairs. I would pay for youtube in a heartbeat if it wasn't connected to the biggest spyware company in the world. But now, even while paying you still get ads and they still track you. The people working at Alphabet are bad and should feel bad.

Premium Lite does not include access to YouTube Music - or else the ads on music videos wouldn't be seen. (That's the only thing i can understand on this bastardized version of a premium service)

That's how they'll convince me to pay for premium

Same. The last time I saw an YouTube ad was around 2015.

Cable TV providers in the 70s: "No commercials when you pay for our services!"

Cable TV providers in the early 80s: "Ok, we actually meant no commercials on premium channels, but local channels will, and it's not our fault."

Cable TV providers in the late 80s: "Fine. What we meant was no commercials on movie channels."

Cable TV providers in the 90s: "Uhm, so only on-demand shows will be commercial free."