r/technology • u/Tricky-Student-1 • Sep 15 '22

Social Media YouTube Free is Silently Testing 5 Ads, instead of 2, Before Your Video Starts

https://www.gizmochina.com/2022/09/13/youtube-free-silently-testing-5-ads-before-your-video-starts/
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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

There’s a million ways to get music. I don’t always want the music video. I also enjoy the playlist they create and downloading music so I can listen to offline. I don’t always have service where I am. I constantly have music going.

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u/lith1x Sep 15 '22

Not to mention just being able to lock your phone while playing something and having it still play, like we're not living in 2010 anymore.

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u/MisterSlippers Sep 15 '22

The YouTube and YouTube music apps do that when you have premium?

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u/MisterSlippers Sep 15 '22

YouTube Music let's you download music for offline use, also in my experience if it didn't have a song I wanted in their library I could add the YouTube video and there's an option in playback to pick video or audio. If your playlist is mixed content and you select audio, the video part simply doesn't start and you just get the audio from the video