“Surprise”

Google confirms YouTube Music Issue with Premium users getting angry at their advertising injection attempt.

Lol, there should be a law that if you pay for a service advertised as ad free, they have to refund you a month of service for each ad they show you.

Gemini was crashing for days, YouTube went down, Youtube music Premium is playing ads, sheesh. Guess vibe coding isn't working

Give it six months, maybe a year. There WILL be ads in YouTube premium and you’ll have to pay another premium on top of that for ad free.

Now could they please fix the blatant advertisements disguised as “Featured” bullshit? I have zero interest in football, I’ve marked it as don’t show me a billion times.

No joke, this is exactly why I cancelled Spotify and went back to piracy!

They “”accidentally“” started playing ads one night, didn’t apologize or offer any refunds, and it was the easiest decision ever to dust off my pirate hat and not look back.

No regrets!

"accidently on purpose"

Oops, we accidentally ripped you off, again.

Google stealthing premium users lol

Huh, never had that problem with the cracked apk I use.

Suckers

Sounds like affected users should be paid whatever Google got paid to play the ad instead, plus a inconvenience penalty.

Closed as WAI. They were testing the waters.

prenium was originally to get people off of using adblockers, nothing more it was always going to come down to forced ads one way or another.

Is the issue that there are people paying for YouTube Premium?

Don't use Youtube if you're going to be giving them a cent. Ublock Origin on PC works well enough, Newpipe is good for Android devices. Newpipe has every single feature that I ever had to see a Youtube premium ad for, and I'm not exaggerating in the slightest.

I remember noticing YouTube's software quality taking a nosedive when they shoved Shorts into the app. At the time, it seemed like it was hastily done as a reaction to TikTok's explosion, but it's still a buggy POS , even after all these years.

Paramount gets confused about who is ad free too. You have to restart the app to fix it. I just got the ad version cause why bother if I get ads and can't fast forward or rewind anyhow?

Insert surprised pikachu meme

They also for a long while showed ads in the interface despite premium. I confirmed with support thes cancelled.

Soon as they start playing a mili second of ads on premium I'm fucking gone. Ill just use Ublock and tell Google to go fuck themselves.

I pay out of convenience as it is, as soon as they make my experience even slightly more shitty I'm out.

I will deal with the headache of ad blockers. And I'll just pay for a better music service .

Your move Sundar.