HACKER Q&A
📣 addaon

Any way to report ads on YouTube Premium?


As of a recent update, the Apple TV Youtube app seems to be displaying nearly-full-screen advertisements that need to be manually "dismissed," one at a time. Given that the value proposition of YouTube Premium is to pay to avoid ads, I'm hoping this is a bug or oversight rather than blatant disregard for customers. I've confirmed that I'm logged in to the Premium account, but can't find a way to report bugs and/or defects, other than (presumedly) reaching out through my credit card representative. Any links or ideas of how to make sure Google is aware of this?

  👤 pwg Accepted Answer ✓
> Any links or ideas of how to make sure Google is aware of this?

Cancel the account. That's the only real signal you can send.

Switch to simply downloading YT content: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

👤 plainnice1
YouTube app has given me the most random issues on the Apple TV then any other app.

This is what I normally do until the issue is fixed,

List and order of things I try in time/effort. 90% of the time, the issues is fixed once I try 1 or 2.

1. Close the app by swiping way the app. If issue still happening. Log out of the app and log back in.

2. Reboot the Apple TV by going to setting select test Restart.

You can also do this by holding Back button and menu on the remote.

3. Deleting the YouTube app and reinstalling it.

4. Last, factory reset the device.

Let us know if this works. Hopefully this isn’t something YouTube is using to change pricing.