alt Hacker News>Why would they? The entire point of YouTube Premium is removing ads.
You could've easily made this argument about Hulu right before it did the exact same thing being described here.
>If they put back ads, I believe that most people will simply cancel their subscription and get a renewed interest in ad-blockers.
Doing this successfully on your smart TV is a barrier that most non-techy folk aren't going to climb over. In the case of Hulu, most people just... accepted it. Same with the Amazon Prime ads you mentioned.
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rkuykendall-com • yesterday at 11:11 PM
This was true of Cable as well.
> You could've easily made this argument about Hulu right before it did the exact same thing being described here.
The main point of paying for Hulu was to be able to watch the shows. Youtube doesn't have that. (They tried to have premium-only shows but it was never much and as far as I can tell they stopped a long time ago.) So while youtube could obviously increase the price another $3, I don't see how they could split off a viable premium-with-ads plan. The premium features outside of ad removal are close to worthless.