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I paid for the YouTube premium that came with the old Google Music subscription, and the problem was it regularly showed ads anyway, especially in the kids stuff.

So then we still needed ad-blocking, which broke Google in a way that it tried to show even more ads (ad blocking probably disrupting the ability to track a 'premium' user/client).

So we're back to relying completely on ad-blockers, and have completely cut out any Google or YouTube sourced content for the kids.




I'm curious how you got ads with premium. I have not seen any.


YouTube kids show ads even with a premium account. Not a surprise since Google is on its way down anyways.


I have never seen this with my kids subaccounts on yt kids or regular yt. I've had premium for a couple years now.


Maybe his account is not true premium as tied to old GM account. I had a few months last year. Quite pleasant compare to usual "naked" YT. But nowhere as good as vanced and then revanced, UBO, VPN+Adguard, pi-hole, and tonnes of fake Google account created from all over the world and outsourced the passworded access to 3rd world to be abused so to confuse Google algorithm. Since using all these to thwart Google tracking and ads, I stopped YT premium after 3rd months as really no point I can do better than their premium service - and cheaper too. I thought premium frees up my time to tinker but they still track and occasionally ads do get thru.


did you use brand subaccounts? those aren't included in premium.


I use one 24/7, and it is definitely using Premium.




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