The Google crusade against advertising blockers continues, with controversial decisions such as advertisements for several hours for users who try to jump. The objective of the company is clear: either we swallow the announcements, or pay for YouTube Premium, the subscription which now costs 13.99 dollars per month.
It is a high price for many users who just want to see videos without having to waste time with the announcements, and Google knows it. Therefore, you live with means of allowing users to benefit videos without advertising without having to pay The full subscription to Premium; We have already talked about one of these experiences, the new cheaper functions and the fewer premium Lite Youtube functions, and now it is the turning point of another.
As YouTube himself revealed on an assistance page, the service lives with a new function to share videos with Premium and without advertising. In other words, a premium user can Share videos without advertising with other users that they only have a free account; In this way, these users can watch the video without interruptions or wait, even if they have not paid. For practical purposes, it is a way to share bonuses, even in specific videos.
Premium YouTube users will be able to Share up to 10 videos without advertising each month with users who are not premium; The only requirement is that the other person lives in a country in which the premium is offered. Therefore, it cannot become a way to take advantage of the premium on the markets on which it is not available.
The system works in a simple way, as a new option in the YouTube sharing menu, which will be called “Share without advertising”; This will generate a link that we can copy or share via an application. The user who clicks on this link can see the video we have shared, Without any announcement that interrupts the experience.
Although it may seem like a good idea to share videos with friends (especially if they are long and have several breaks for advertising), there are certain limits to take into account. To start, the links we generate You can only see 10 times in a row; For the tenth visualization, the link will cease to work and display the video with announcements.
The good news is that these ten visualizations should not be of the same user; In other words, We can share the same video with up to 10 people And will only tell itself as a shared video for the monthly calculation. Ideal for sharing videos in WhatsApp groups, for example. In addition, if we share a video with a user who already has a bonus, his visualization will not count.
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Another limitation is in videos. Most YouTube videos are compatible with this feature, but not all; Musical content (such as music videos and songs from YouTube Music), YouTube Originals, Shorts, Live Broadcasts, Films and Series They cannot be shared without advertising.
For the moment, this feature is in testing in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom and Türkiye For a limited period, but Youtube already argues that it is possible to extend it to more subscribers in the future.
