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the problem is not the premium. The problem is the personalized ads.
I'm not talking about the EU's issue, I'm talking about why they could never embed their own ads in videos. Because people pay for premium specifically to not see ads and they would have a mass cancellation on their hands.
This is a non issue, on twitch if you sub to a streamer you don't see ads and they are embed in the stream for non paying users still, and it's pretty hard to block for free.
This is what I was responding to:
That would be embedding the ads directly in the videos, which I do not think they will do.
yes. This is what I replied at. Having a version with ads and a version without ads is not that big of an issue. The issue becomes huge because the ads are personalized which means that they cannot even have a version with ads since the ads are different for each user.
It's an issue of storage space if nothing else. It means doubling all of their videos. Why would they do that? As others have pointed out, they have other options when it comes to dealing with adblockers which don't violate any EU regulations and even this is pretty tenuous. So they don't need to do that. They can just prevent the site from working properly if you have an adblocker.