What a fascinating read this was as the platform YouTube displays ads on its videos as one of its primary methods of generating income to maintain the business and as you imagine people can find that annoying. However, they offer a premium service where the proposition is if you pay for it you will no longer see those ads. I wasn’t even expecting this angle though as there is a lawsuit where subscribers claim they were misled as they still see ads on videos. How so? Apparently, it’s because YouTube channel creators often have private sponsorship and so during their videos they actually cut to a sponsored segment where they talk nothing but the sponsor’s offering. So on that basic, the claim is YouTube still shows ads even with a subscription.
What an interesting angle that is from a legal point of view and rime will tell if those people will be successful. But that sure opens up so many talking points in terms of legality when offering these types of subscriptions. I know for myself the understanding has always been it should mean no YouTube controlled ads since they can’t control what the content creators create. But there are lawyers out there that will sue for almost everything if they can.
If anything, it could result in YouTube settling and then making sure their ads explicitly say just the ads that they serve will be disabled.