Honestly, I’d much rather pay $10 a month for a dedicated streaming service like Spotify or Apple Music. For starters I can’t justify spending $12 a month on Premium, or $10 a month for YouTube Music, just to get an ad-free experience and background playback. I certainly wasn’t going to let YouTube’s ads drive me towards Premium. In that respect I do feel bad for blocking the ads, but in the same way increasingly intrusive adverts drove people to install ad-blockers on their browsers, YouTube’s own ad policies pushed me towards an ad-free alternative.

While I’m not necessarily worried about pulling a few dollars out of the pocket of a big corporation like Google, those creators do deserve what little revenue YouTube has to offer.įor what it’s worth Vanced doesn’t pull out product placement or plug for creators’ other revenue streams in its default state - be it Patreon, merchandise, availability on rival streaming services, and so on. I’m not opposed to advertising as a concept, especially when it comes to creator-made content. Frankly, it was making the YouTube experience absolutely miserable. Worse still, those unskippable ads seemed to be getting longer.

Before the ads seemed to be pretty focussed on things like Instagram and TikTok, fast food, Audible and all those other things you’d expect to see.īefore finally snapping and switching to Vanced, I was getting various adverts for sketchy financial services, a huge number of gambling apps and websites and an increasing number of unskippable ads. Not only were adverts seemingly getting more frequent, the quality of them was going downhill as well. Especially since I was able to skip a large number of them. There were still ads, and they could prove to be incredibly irritating but overall it wasn’t a particularly painful experience. At the start of the year I recall being able to set up a session on my treadmill and get through a decent 30-minute run with minimal interruptions. This has been especially beneficial when I’m exercising, since I can set up music playlists and not have to worry about a bombardment of commercials for Audible, TikTok and Generic Super Mega Casino App disrupting my flow.īut things did get noticeably worse over the course of 2021. In the months since, I’ve grown accustomed to being able to enjoy YouTube without interruptions every few minutes.

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