User blog comment:Batran99/StopYoutubeRedCampaign/@comment-25923362-20151027140229/@comment-6812733-20151027141204

There was pretty much the same amount of hate towards Google+ integration and it got passed. YouTube has been planning this for months now, I remember hearing about YouTube planning to make a paid, ad-free service of itself but it got so much hate when it was announced that it seemed to have been thrown into the trash. Apparently it wasn't.