ComradeMiao@lemmy.world
on 14 Nov 2024 14:50
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It works in safari and you can block anything like ublock. Not dns. You could run dns on a server and run your iphone’s network through it as well.
drake@lemmy.sdf.org
on 14 Nov 2024 09:20
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If you use iOS devices for watching YouTube, look into side-loading uYou+, it’s basically an edited YouTube app that removes most of the ads. You can stream from your phone to the apple TV, too, also without ads. You don’t need a jailbroken phone or anything like that.
YogurtDoes@lemmy.world
on 17 Nov 2024 03:41
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It is just YT testing new exciting features, nothing to worry about.
Joelk111@lemmy.world
on 14 Nov 2024 05:06
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If this goes live, I’m out. YT premium is my most expensive subscription, but I watch enough YouTube that I’m OK with it, especially considering that it supports creators more than ad viewers. If I still get ads? Nah dawg. I’ll divy up that money amongst patreons or whatever, and install add blockers.
If your main reason for paying premium is for ad blocking, I’d suggest just cancelling it now and using ad blockers. If you want to support creators, I’d say that it’s better to cancel and subscribe to a few patreons - I’d pick some of the smaller creators you like, to spread some of that support around a bit.
If you use iOS devices for watching YouTube, look into side-loading uYou+, it’s basically an edited YouTube app that removes most of the ads. You can stream from your phone to the apple TV, too, also without ads.
Not sure what the android equivalent is, but someone else will know - hopefully they will share in the comments also.
Sprucie@feddit.uk
on 14 Nov 2024 09:41
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ReVanced is great on Android, it also enables other YouTube premium features such as picture-in-picure mode.
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
on 14 Nov 2024 15:10
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I used to use Vanced but switched to Newpipe, as it is noticeably lighter (also at least for me, downloads did not properly work while they were fine on Newpipe).
woelkchen@lemmy.world
on 14 Nov 2024 09:46
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Why don’t you just cancel it now and use ad blockers?
Joel explains this in the second sentence: “I’m OK with it, especially considering that it supports creators more than ad viewers”
drake@lemmy.sdf.org
on 14 Nov 2024 10:27
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Ah, sorry, that’ll teach me to read more carefully. Thanks for pointing it out <3
I mean you can probably support all the creators you like in other ways: Buying merch, donating onetime, signing up for a patreon, subscribing to nebula (if they are on there), …
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
on 15 Nov 2024 00:11
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Buying merch
don't create waste... unless you will actually use this "merch" just give them cash if you really care.
why do people need to involve some third party. you like their work, pay them cash money.
reminds of boomers with their "gift" cards lol
puntyyoke@lemmy.world
on 14 Nov 2024 15:24
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Reasonable advice, but I’d note that I pay for premium and patreon specifically because I can only afford patreon for a few creators. I’d rather pay everyone I watch. While YouTube isn’t perfect, I like the service enough that I don’t mind paying for it.
Yeah, of course - you should do what you think is best. I was thinking that if everyone cancels their YT Premium and signs up for a few Patreons, distributed as randomly as possible (which is why I said to go for the smaller creators) then overall creators would get more money, while we’d still be paying less. Everyone wins - except Google, but fuck Google!
extremeboredom@lemmy.world
on 14 Nov 2024 15:43
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Wait… You can sideload on ios? Since when?
MattTheProgrammer@lemmy.world
on 14 Nov 2024 16:09
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not on US devices without jailbreaking, but I think you can on EU devices.
rowdyrockets@lemm.ee
on 14 Nov 2024 16:48
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You can on any iOS device without jailbreaking. Look into AltStore or Sidestore. The caveat is that you can only sign 3 apps at a time, and must resign these apps every week - which is done over your WiFi to a PC running AltStore server.
If you have a $99/year Apple developer account, you can use AltStore to sign as many apps as you like, and you only need to resign once per year.
extremeboredom@lemmy.world
on 14 Nov 2024 22:39
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“Look what they have to do to mimic a fraction of our power!”
-Android users
drake@lemmy.sdf.org
on 14 Nov 2024 19:11
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Since at least a couple of years ago - it requires a bit of jumping through hoops, but it’s 100% worth it to get ad-free YouTube on iPhone!
You can do it in any country as far as I know, it’s not EU-only.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 14 Nov 2024 22:57
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You can only aideload 2 apps (alt store is one of them)
The eu version (alt store pal) doesn’t support installing of unsigned IPAs.
extremeboredom@lemmy.world
on 15 Nov 2024 00:04
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I’m trying to imagine voluntarily buying a device that all but prohibits you from choosing the software you run on it. A limit of 2-3 apps, which have to be re-signed weekly by a desktop server, to me that doesn’t count as “supporting sideloading.” Maybe technically. What a joke.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world
on 14 Nov 2024 16:06
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I use it because it came with Play Music, now YouTube Music. I’ll just switch to Spotify if I see them.
I stopped using streaming platforms personally and just went back to pirating music. Personally I don’t want to support Spotify because they continue to support far-right ideology with their podcasts, but that’s a completely personal decision.
thegr8goldfish@startrek.website
on 14 Nov 2024 16:42
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SmartTubeNext has been working fairly well for me for like 5 years or something. It’s super easy to side load on a Fire stick.
TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee
on 15 Nov 2024 23:50
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You’re suggesting turning a $15 or so YouTube bill into a $50+ Patreon bill depending on what creators they watch
darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 14 Nov 2024 05:20
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I just can’t take an article complaining about ads seriously when it’s that peppered with ads …
RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
on 14 Nov 2024 06:15
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They are “complaining” (more like reporting) about ads for people who paid to not have any.
Do you have a subscription with this media company?
Drathro@dormi.zone
on 14 Nov 2024 05:43
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Grayjay on Android has been working damn near flawlessly for me. No clue if the parent company is to be trusted at this point or not- but I cannot argue with the results.
vext01@lemmy.sdf.org
on 14 Nov 2024 07:28
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I’ve been using thus too. Works great.
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
on 14 Nov 2024 07:40
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I much prefer Newpipe, which has been amazing so far.
Seems like the user tracking “special promotion” overrides the premium. They don’t even say whether it’s expected or not. But my take away is that paying for premium may or may not show you ads, but you are definitely tracked and harvested for data. (Maybe even more so, since, well, you are more valuable to them.)
mlen@awful.systems
on 14 Nov 2024 08:10
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ublock is cheaper and actually works
ColdWater@lemmy.ca
on 14 Nov 2024 09:02
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So premium users put their data on a pedestal for Google? That’s fun
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
on 14 Nov 2024 09:26
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That’s generally; if you have an account, you are easier to track for them.
ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world
on 14 Nov 2024 09:31
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I got the same Sunday banner in the middle of the screen similar to where shorts show up. Never in my life have I watched or cared for American football. Clearly a waste of money for the advertising company since I just closed it by pressing the x same as shorts on desktop.
datavoid@lemmy.ml
on 14 Nov 2024 14:32
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At least a subscription includes YouTube music? Isn’t that interesting and relevant.
alphabethunter@lemmy.world
on 14 Nov 2024 19:03
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That part of the support email almost made me puke of how fucking awful it was. “Why complain about ads when you get YouTube Music for free by paying us money”
I’d argue that YTMusic is a superior product to YT, but both put together aren’t worth anywhere near the cost. You can get a premium TV/Movie service for that price with family access.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world
on 14 Nov 2024 15:10
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Well yes, you didn’t get first ads. But what about second ads?
doughless@lemmy.world
on 14 Nov 2024 15:16
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Wait, I haven’t seen ads on YouTube Premium (yet), and I’m just now realizing this could very likely be because Google knows my wife and I don’t watch sports.
TonyOstrich@lemmy.world
on 14 Nov 2024 16:15
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That has been my specific issue with paying for any Google product always. I understand when I am using a product for free that I am not necessarily the customer and that money has to be made off of me or the users more generally somehow. That’s “fine” (ish, not really, but that has more to do with issues of security than anything).
However when I pay for a product or service, I want to now be the customer and I want to be in control of my data and have the company cater to me. If, when paying for a Google service, there was some legally relevant things in place that insured I was no longer being tracked and used to generate revenue via third parties I would gladly pay. Probably more than they are charging now, but instead they want to have it both ways which is just not OK with me.
MisterFrog@lemmy.world
on 19 Nov 2024 21:13
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“With YouTube Premium, enjoy ad-free access, downloads, and background play on YouTube and YouTube Music.”
In Australia, if they reneg on this headline promise, doesn’t matter what’s in the fine print, this would be refundable under Australian Consumer Law (not a lawyer).
What bullshit, and how silly on their part, since it’s just so much more convenient to block ads instead of paying
qualia@lemmy.world
on 14 Nov 2024 08:25
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Or sometimes it doesn’t let me play YouTube in a minimized floating way. Seems to be if I’ve been going back and forth between horizontal and vertical vids. Both normally allow floating minimized play but something about how they interact often leads me to having to force close the app, which loses me the custom queue I’ve been constructing. If the official solution is buggy…
This looks like either a bug in the platform or people with Premium Lite. The article made no attempt at investigating this because all they did was to reprint complaints from anonymous people on Reddit. Customer support offering boilerplate reply about why someone is seeing ads sounds like par for the course here because it’s all either LLM chatbots or people in third world countries who couldn’t care less.
sachamato@lemmy.world
on 14 Nov 2024 09:08
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Just surf the seas.
Kbobabob@lemmy.world
on 14 Nov 2024 12:03
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Lol, entirely unnecessary to watch YouTube.
capuccino@lemmy.world
on 14 Nov 2024 15:35
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explain your self
Kbobabob@lemmy.world
on 14 Nov 2024 17:00
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Firefox and ublock
Treczoks@lemmy.world
on 14 Nov 2024 09:46
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What ads? (User without premium, but proper browser and adblocker)
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee
on 14 Nov 2024 11:11
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Firebox mobile + unlock origin extension + YouTube.com.
You get everything that YouTube premium can offer. Including screen off play.
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee
on 15 Nov 2024 10:35
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Don’t you still have to patch it and repack it every update?
SaltySalamander@fedia.io
on 15 Nov 2024 11:41
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personaldnsfilter + the Youtube app. Fuck ads.
TonyOstrich@lemmy.world
on 14 Nov 2024 16:09
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What I find the most hilarious is that on a rooted Android phone there is an app that hooks into the YouTube app and eliminates adds in it. Even when my PC with Firefox and UBlock get temporarily blocked in the battle between Google and ad blockers my phone using the standard app still doesn’t have adds.
I don’t know something about it is very satisfying to me.
gunpachi@lemmings.world
on 14 Nov 2024 17:48
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Do you mind sharing the name of the app please?
Although I always use NewPipe / Tubular and Revanced as a backup solution.
TonyOstrich@lemmy.world
on 14 Nov 2024 19:18
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It’s an LSposed/XPosed based app called YouTube Adaway. It also enables background playback.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world
on 14 Nov 2024 15:58
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Good, I hope they raise pricing too and pay creators even less. Make it hurt. It’s the only language users understand apparently.
Evotech@lemmy.world
on 14 Nov 2024 17:53
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The second i see an ad in cancelling my subscription
FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca
on 14 Nov 2024 21:57
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Same.
bokherif@lemmy.world
on 16 Nov 2024 02:14
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You do see ads, you just don’t realize it. There are multiple 1-2 minute videos on your feed usually with the title “Introducing [insert product]” and these are product placements that YouTube is very well aware of. They also had the audacity to tell me that these are ads but they don’t “interfere” with me watching videos. So, they are injecting ads into premium subscriber feeds already. Disgusting company.
I can skip those at least. And do with sponsorblock
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
on 14 Nov 2024 18:25
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I’d bet that channel “members” don’t get ads for that channel regardless of premium status.
IMO, Google made premium, almost nobody bought it. So they went after adblockers, hoping that people would get premium to get rid of the ads. People most just Adblock harder.
While this is happening, one exec is peering over the fence at twitch. Where they only way to get away from ads without a pretty good Adblock, is to subscribe to the individual creator.
So they make “memberships” to channels a thing.
Almost nobody buys that either. So they go… What if, even if someone is premium, we give them ads, unless they’re a channel member.
Genius.
Paying to block ads per creator/channel/whatever, is a special level of bullshit that twitch has always had.
The system is working as expected. The companies are trying to find the best way to extract the most value from you using their platform.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
on 14 Nov 2024 22:03
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This is all conjecture right?
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
on 15 Nov 2024 04:49
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Indeed. I have absolutely no way of knowing anything for certain.
I’m just screaming into the void from this hellscape we call Earth.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 14 Nov 2024 22:08
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People are buying memberships though?
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 14 Nov 2024 23:10
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Usually you see this for creators like vtubers.
I like them but I will never consider memberships. At best I will sub to an actual service like floatplane or nebula
AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com
on 14 Nov 2024 19:25
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Suckers paying for it
madcaesar@lemmy.world
on 14 Nov 2024 23:40
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Don’t worry, simply pay for Youtube Premium+ to get rid of ads on Premium!
scripthook@lemmy.world
on 14 Nov 2024 23:50
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I use New Pipe for android and Freetube for desktop. I have all the YouTube premium features at $0 cost and no ads hehe
VintageGenious@sh.itjust.works
on 15 Nov 2024 21:29
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I use revanced, it’s good
Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
on 16 Nov 2024 01:37
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I haven’t been able to use new pipe since a few months back, did they fix it?
My tipping point was YouTube serving the same one ad months on end to me.
I was fine with ads a decade ago. I tolerated them increasing the amount five-fold over the years. But that was borderline torture, and getting an adblock was the only working solution.
Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
on 22 Nov 2024 12:09
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Omg the Temu ad bombardment made me pull my hair out
threaded - newest
I guess they are premium ads?
this but unironically
advertisers paid a premium
Good one! 🤣
Ad companies have the new subscription tier of Premium Buster, so now you have to upgrade to Premium Buster Buster
You can’t triple stamp a double stamp, you can’t triple stamp a double stamp!
I love seeing a Big Hit reference. Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one who’s ever seen that movie.
whos gonna prosecute any of this shit now
Oh they will prosecute! They will prosecute people with adblocks and alternative clients.
This is why I stopped paying them. Fuck them, you’re just an source of income to them.
Side loading works great for this and it’s free
I mean, yeah, what kind of relationship did you expect?
They’re not running youtube for the good of their heart
Lol godamnit I just found out YouTube is a business, you’re getting downvoted!
This is normal, nothing to see here… except these wonderful ads!! - YouTube
A/b testing or code error?
With Alphabet, I treat anything related to delivering more ads as intentional.
Yeah I stopped paying for premium once I’d figured out using Safari on my phone with an ad blocker works with YouTube still lol
I use Firefox with ublock on my phone and I get no ads. Or I watch them in Newpipe.
Which adblocker are you using on iOS?
Adguard
DNS or an app? How does it work?
It works in safari and you can block anything like ublock. Not dns. You could run dns on a server and run your iphone’s network through it as well.
If you use iOS devices for watching YouTube, look into side-loading uYou+, it’s basically an edited YouTube app that removes most of the ads. You can stream from your phone to the apple TV, too, also without ads. You don’t need a jailbroken phone or anything like that.
This Is what I’ve been using.
It is just YT testing new exciting features, nothing to worry about.
If this goes live, I’m out. YT premium is my most expensive subscription, but I watch enough YouTube that I’m OK with it, especially considering that it supports creators more than ad viewers. If I still get ads? Nah dawg. I’ll divy up that money amongst patreons or whatever, and install add blockers.
If your main reason for paying premium is for ad blocking, I’d suggest just cancelling it now and using ad blockers. If you want to support creators, I’d say that it’s better to cancel and subscribe to a few patreons - I’d pick some of the smaller creators you like, to spread some of that support around a bit.
If you use iOS devices for watching YouTube, look into side-loading uYou+, it’s basically an edited YouTube app that removes most of the ads. You can stream from your phone to the apple TV, too, also without ads.
Not sure what the android equivalent is, but someone else will know - hopefully they will share in the comments also.
ReVanced is great on Android, it also enables other YouTube premium features such as picture-in-picure mode.
I used to use Vanced but switched to Newpipe, as it is noticeably lighter (also at least for me, downloads did not properly work while they were fine on Newpipe).
Joel explains this in the second sentence: “I’m OK with it, especially considering that it supports creators more than ad viewers”
Ah, sorry, that’ll teach me to read more carefully. Thanks for pointing it out <3
I mean you can probably support all the creators you like in other ways: Buying merch, donating onetime, signing up for a patreon, subscribing to nebula (if they are on there), …
don't create waste... unless you will actually use this "merch" just give them cash if you really care.
why do people need to involve some third party. you like their work, pay them cash money.
reminds of boomers with their "gift" cards lol
Reasonable advice, but I’d note that I pay for premium and patreon specifically because I can only afford patreon for a few creators. I’d rather pay everyone I watch. While YouTube isn’t perfect, I like the service enough that I don’t mind paying for it.
Yeah, of course - you should do what you think is best. I was thinking that if everyone cancels their YT Premium and signs up for a few Patreons, distributed as randomly as possible (which is why I said to go for the smaller creators) then overall creators would get more money, while we’d still be paying less. Everyone wins - except Google, but fuck Google!
Wait… You can sideload on ios? Since when?
not on US devices without jailbreaking, but I think you can on EU devices.
You can on any iOS device without jailbreaking. Look into AltStore or Sidestore. The caveat is that you can only sign 3 apps at a time, and must resign these apps every week - which is done over your WiFi to a PC running AltStore server.
If you have a $99/year Apple developer account, you can use AltStore to sign as many apps as you like, and you only need to resign once per year.
“Look what they have to do to mimic a fraction of our power!” -Android users
Since at least a couple of years ago - it requires a bit of jumping through hoops, but it’s 100% worth it to get ad-free YouTube on iPhone!
You can do it in any country as far as I know, it’s not EU-only.
You can only aideload 2 apps (alt store is one of them)
But that version of alt store does not support installing uyouplus. At least I have not been able to add the repo.
Really? When I briefly had a iPhone (jailbroken of course) it worked for me …maybe try a different IPA?
The eu version (alt store pal) doesn’t support installing of unsigned IPAs.
I’m trying to imagine voluntarily buying a device that all but prohibits you from choosing the software you run on it. A limit of 2-3 apps, which have to be re-signed weekly by a desktop server, to me that doesn’t count as “supporting sideloading.” Maybe technically. What a joke.
I use it because it came with Play Music, now YouTube Music. I’ll just switch to Spotify if I see them.
I stopped using streaming platforms personally and just went back to pirating music. Personally I don’t want to support Spotify because they continue to support far-right ideology with their podcasts, but that’s a completely personal decision.
SmartTubeNext has been working fairly well for me for like 5 years or something. It’s super easy to side load on a Fire stick.
You’re suggesting turning a $15 or so YouTube bill into a $50+ Patreon bill depending on what creators they watch
I just can’t take an article complaining about ads seriously when it’s that peppered with ads …
They are “complaining” (more like reporting) about ads for people who paid to not have any.
Do you have a subscription with this media company?
Grayjay on Android has been working damn near flawlessly for me. No clue if the parent company is to be trusted at this point or not- but I cannot argue with the results.
I’ve been using thus too. Works great.
I much prefer Newpipe, which has been amazing so far.
I’d never heard of FUTO. It’s been around for a year and I can find so little information.
I know Louis Rossman is involved. I don’t agree with some of his views, but as far as tech freedom goes he seems to have the right idea.
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Were you able to import your subscriptions? I haven’t been able to and that’s all that’s keeping me on Premium
Yeah, logging in pulled across everything, as far as I can tell. Subscriptions included!
Needs an ATV app.
u/Dangerous-Pizza7054 from the article,
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Seems like the user tracking “special promotion” overrides the premium. They don’t even say whether it’s expected or not. But my take away is that paying for premium may or may not show you ads, but you are definitely tracked and harvested for data. (Maybe even more so, since, well, you are more valuable to them.)
ublock is cheaper and actually works
So premium users put their data on a pedestal for Google? That’s fun
That’s generally; if you have an account, you are easier to track for them.
I got the same Sunday banner in the middle of the screen similar to where shorts show up. Never in my life have I watched or cared for American football. Clearly a waste of money for the advertising company since I just closed it by pressing the x same as shorts on desktop.
At least a subscription includes YouTube music? Isn’t that interesting and relevant.
That part of the support email almost made me puke of how fucking awful it was. “Why complain about ads when you get YouTube Music for free by paying us money”
I would cancel that subscription SOOO FAST.
I’d argue that YTMusic is a superior product to YT, but both put together aren’t worth anywhere near the cost. You can get a premium TV/Movie service for that price with family access.
Well yes, you didn’t get first ads. But what about second ads?
Wait, I haven’t seen ads on YouTube Premium (yet), and I’m just now realizing this could very likely be because Google knows my wife and I don’t watch sports.
That has been my specific issue with paying for any Google product always. I understand when I am using a product for free that I am not necessarily the customer and that money has to be made off of me or the users more generally somehow. That’s “fine” (ish, not really, but that has more to do with issues of security than anything).
However when I pay for a product or service, I want to now be the customer and I want to be in control of my data and have the company cater to me. If, when paying for a Google service, there was some legally relevant things in place that insured I was no longer being tracked and used to generate revenue via third parties I would gladly pay. Probably more than they are charging now, but instead they want to have it both ways which is just not OK with me.
We’ve GOT A PAYERR OVER HEREEEEE!!!
“With YouTube Premium, enjoy ad-free access, downloads, and background play on YouTube and YouTube Music.”
In Australia, if they reneg on this headline promise, doesn’t matter what’s in the fine print, this would be refundable under Australian Consumer Law (not a lawyer).
What bullshit, and how silly on their part, since it’s just so much more convenient to block ads instead of paying
Or sometimes it doesn’t let me play YouTube in a minimized floating way. Seems to be if I’ve been going back and forth between horizontal and vertical vids. Both normally allow floating minimized play but something about how they interact often leads me to having to force close the app, which loses me the custom queue I’ve been constructing. If the official solution is buggy…
This looks like either a bug in the platform or people with Premium Lite. The article made no attempt at investigating this because all they did was to reprint complaints from anonymous people on Reddit. Customer support offering boilerplate reply about why someone is seeing ads sounds like par for the course here because it’s all either LLM chatbots or people in third world countries who couldn’t care less.
Just surf the seas.
Lol, entirely unnecessary to watch YouTube.
explain your self
Firefox and ublock
What ads? (User without premium, but proper browser and adblocker)
Firebox mobile + unlock origin extension + YouTube.com.
You get everything that YouTube premium can offer. Including screen off play.
On mobile you can use ReVanced.
Don’t you still have to patch it and repack it every update?
personaldnsfilter + the Youtube app. Fuck ads.
What I find the most hilarious is that on a rooted Android phone there is an app that hooks into the YouTube app and eliminates adds in it. Even when my PC with Firefox and UBlock get temporarily blocked in the battle between Google and ad blockers my phone using the standard app still doesn’t have adds.
I don’t know something about it is very satisfying to me.
Do you mind sharing the name of the app please?
Although I always use NewPipe / Tubular and Revanced as a backup solution.
It’s an LSposed/XPosed based app called YouTube Adaway. It also enables background playback.
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Just use Grayjay.
Or if not that amazing app, the Revanced app.
ReVanced works without rooting the phone
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Good, I hope they raise pricing too and pay creators even less. Make it hurt. It’s the only language users understand apparently.
The second i see an ad in cancelling my subscription
Same.
You do see ads, you just don’t realize it. There are multiple 1-2 minute videos on your feed usually with the title “Introducing [insert product]” and these are product placements that YouTube is very well aware of. They also had the audacity to tell me that these are ads but they don’t “interfere” with me watching videos. So, they are injecting ads into premium subscriber feeds already. Disgusting company.
That’s true.
I can skip those at least. And do with sponsorblock
I’d bet that channel “members” don’t get ads for that channel regardless of premium status.
IMO, Google made premium, almost nobody bought it. So they went after adblockers, hoping that people would get premium to get rid of the ads. People most just Adblock harder.
While this is happening, one exec is peering over the fence at twitch. Where they only way to get away from ads without a pretty good Adblock, is to subscribe to the individual creator.
So they make “memberships” to channels a thing.
Almost nobody buys that either. So they go… What if, even if someone is premium, we give them ads, unless they’re a channel member.
Genius.
Paying to block ads per creator/channel/whatever, is a special level of bullshit that twitch has always had.
The system is working as expected. The companies are trying to find the best way to extract the most value from you using their platform.
This is all conjecture right?
Indeed. I have absolutely no way of knowing anything for certain.
I’m just screaming into the void from this hellscape we call Earth.
People are buying memberships though?
Usually you see this for creators like vtubers.
I like them but I will never consider memberships. At best I will sub to an actual service like floatplane or nebula
Suckers paying for it
Don’t worry, simply pay for Youtube Premium+ to get rid of ads on Premium!
I use New Pipe for android and Freetube for desktop. I have all the YouTube premium features at $0 cost and no ads hehe
I use revanced, it’s good
I haven’t been able to use new pipe since a few months back, did they fix it?
My NewPipe hasn’t broken for a significant time in quite a while, it’s good to go in my experience
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Grayjay be like
One of my biggest issues with the ads is that they’re mostly scams. I just get ads for shit I know isn’t real
My tipping point was YouTube serving the same one ad months on end to me.
I was fine with ads a decade ago. I tolerated them increasing the amount five-fold over the years. But that was borderline torture, and getting an adblock was the only working solution.
Omg the Temu ad bombardment made me pull my hair out