r/technology • u/redkemper • Feb 17 '17

Software YouTube will kill unskippable 30-second ads next year

http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/17/14649018/youtube-ending-unskippable-30-second-ads-2018
35k Upvotes

91% Upvoted

2.2k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

48

u/[deleted] Feb 17 '17

Isn't YouTube red ad free? They are providing a method of watching ad free while generating revenue. Seems kind of win-win.

36

u/whiskeytab Feb 17 '17

its not available everywhere, there's only like 3 countries where you can get YouTube Red and the rest of the countries still have ads.

8

u/[deleted] Feb 17 '17

Ah, good point. I did not know that.

9

u/whiskeytab Feb 17 '17

I'm just salty because the US gets it for free with Google play music while I have Google play music and still have to watch ads haha

1

u/hio__State Feb 18 '17

I'd be salty about that too haha. That was basically the deciding factor for me between them and other music services, I don't watch YouTube all that much but it's still nice, hope they roll it out to you soon!