Shortly after YouTube announced its crackdown on ad blockers, the platform shared plans to improve its paid Premium service to incentivize people to start paying for YouTube. So, in a way, you not only skip the ads, but you also get access to some cool features.
Playables is supposed to be one of these features and is now reportedly rolling out to paying customers. Playables is a standalone section of the YouTube app or desktop website that lets you play arcade games. Some Premium users now receive notifications from YouTube saying they can now enable playables via settings.
Once you enable the Playables tab, you can start playing one of the 37 games available right now, one of which is Angry Birds Showdown. The best part is that you don’t need to download anything – all games run on your desktop browser or mobile YouTube app.
We’ve seen a similar approach from Netflix, but we have yet to see if it will be successful. In fact, even YouTube isn’t sure, so it says the service will be available until March 28, 2024, and will likely decide whether to keep the Playables table after that date.
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