{"id":918618,"date":"2025-04-01T10:58:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T05:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=918618"},"modified":"2025-04-01T10:58:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T05:28:14","slug":"google-may-soon-allow-you-to-watch-ad-free-youtube-videos-without-paying-but-theres-a-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/01\/google-may-soon-allow-you-to-watch-ad-free-youtube-videos-without-paying-but-theres-a-catch\/","title":{"rendered":"Google may soon allow you to watch ad-free YouTube videos without paying but there\u2019s a catch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube has been encouraging users to either subscribe to Premium or sit through ads while streaming videos and audio. In yet another move to drive subscriptions, the Google-owned platform is now testing a feature that lets Premium members share an ad-free viewing experience with non-subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>According to YouTube, the experimental feature is currently available for testing in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Turkey and the United Kingdom for a limited time. The company also indicates that it may expand the feature to a broader audience of Premium members in the future, depending on the results of the initial testing phase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube has been encouraging users to either subscribe to Premium or sit through ads while streaming videos and audio. In yet another move to drive subscriptions, the Google-owned platform is now testing a feature that lets Premium members share an ad-free viewing experience with non-subscribers. According to YouTube, the experimental feature is currently available for testing in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Turkey and the United Kingdom for a limited time. The company also indicates that it may expand the feature to a broader audience of Premium members in the future, depending on the results of the initial testing phase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}