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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

If they actually continue on their path of ensuring no ad blockers work on YouTube, I will simply cease watching it completely. I really hate how aggressive advertisement became over the years. I didn't mind non-gore (because some ads shown really gruesome health issues) and non-porn side panels which didn't animate. Hell, sometimes I'd click if they had what would interest me. There is absolute zero chance I will buy anything which bothers me. And I won't let it waste the time of my life.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I like the game grumps and Lex Fridman. The documentaries are cool, but I have to watch them in a different container or YouTube will start feeding me 30 minute ads or rants that sound reasonable but are super bigoted and flawed when you actually think about it

Reddit meant more to me than anything else I do online, and I committed to leaving it behind even before I found Lemmy... YouTube is barely worth it even without the ads. And I've got a whole fediverse of video content to investigate

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

One of my oldest friends has recently started turning to the dark side, his PC died and he's run out of new shows to watch... so started watching stuff on YouTube via the suggestions.

It started off as debates between men and women... I warned him that it was going to suggest him more and more extreme stuff and the algo will walk him further to the right. Now he's quoting Andrew Tate, watching videos with conspiracies about great reset, ranting about trans people, ugh. When he said "the media is shoving trans in our face, all these trans personalities" I asked him to list these trans personalities, he couldn't list one. He's just spewing the rhetoric YT fed him. Very sad, he's not the only one being infected by this shit.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I don't see why buying youtube premuim is any better than just using ublock origin.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Probably just a morality thing. Even though some creators have spoken against its use because the experience is bad

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because it works on smart tvs and Chromecast. Also I like YouTube music. I watch enough YouTube that it's worth it for me. Almost 0% of that watch time is on a device that supports uBlock Origin

Also you know...supporting channels I watch...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

What you thought that paying money would take away the ads?! (Laughs in profit)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

All that paying does is prove you’ll pay whatever they want. Just like a blackmailer, it’s never enough. They always escalate in their attempts to extract “value”.

It’s the same damn story, time after time. “Oh, we put a few ads to cover expenses - it’ll be limited, we promise.” 3 months later: “We have a premium plan that hides ads.” Another 3 months: “We now have informational banners on premium for our own content. Since it’s our own, it’s totally not an ad!”

Then just: “Pay us a monthly rate and get served ads.”

It’s like fucking clockwork with these ghouls.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

As someone who uses and really enjoys Youtube Premium this upsets me. Feels very counter-to what is agreed on purchase:

I wonder if it's possible to file a complaint as false advertisement. As part of the subscription it even says in the FAQ "ad-free" which this is definitely not. I'm not a lawyer though and this is not legal advice.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This reminds me of the "Ad free" tier of Paramount Plus. There were unskippable ads for other paramount shows. And the 5 second bumper counted as an ad and was unskippable.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not a lawyer but anyone with a brain cell would agree this is false advertising at least, possibly breach of contract depending on what the TOS says.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

More like very infuriating, I pay for premium too, if I see ads I’ll be pissed!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's why I canceled Premium. I was still getting ads AND Google still used trackers. AND content creators get next to no money from it...

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ublock on Firefox> premium, they will always try to advertise even if you pay unfortunately

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

smarttube next my beloved

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

does this support 4k? Anything i’ve used that says they do actually don’t. FreeTube, Invidious, Piped

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Corporations ☕

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Strange. I have Premium as well but I've never received an ad.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's not an ad. That's a high quality premium product reminder. To remove these reminders please subscribe to YouTube Premium Plus.

[+] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I will do that on my Android TV right away.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

For Android TV you have Smart Tube Next

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Do you happen to know of a replacement for Youtube Vanced? It stopped getting supported due to cease and desist, and now it only works like half the time... (idk why youtube doesn't create a version check and make it not work all the time, but w/e lmao I'll take what I can get)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

there is a replacement called revanced, here is their github page.

You will have to compile the youtube app yourself, their revanced manager will help you with that.

And you have to download the latest supported version that is 18.19.35 from apk mirror.

If you need any more help feel free to ask me :)

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Tutorial Revanced. Download the latest Revanced Manager App from here & install: https://github.com/revanced/revanced-manager/releases/tag/v1.3.5 After that uninstall every update of your installed YouTube. (Use Google for that) Start Revanced Manager - Patcher - Select application - YouTube. Now look at the "Suggested:" app version. Remember the version number, go to apkmirror.com, search for YouTube and the right version number. Download and install. Restart Revanced Manager, Patcher, select, YouTube. Suggested and current should be the same version numbers now. Go to selected patches, click on default (if you don't know what you are doing), click done. Click on patch, wait a bit. While it's repacking go to your Youtube and disable it, before the install prompt comes (if you do it too early, there might be an error. Retry). When the install promp comes, you click install (and you might need to allow it in the settings). Voila, you have Revanced installed.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think you should just share the apk because those steps are only for tech savy people. Way easier, download and install: https://github.com/j-hc/revanced-magisk-module/releases/download/20220868/youtube-revanced-v18.16.37-all.apk

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is why I would not want to pay a subscription to YouTube. I don't trust that they would ever truely work out all the ads

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I've had Premium since it was called Red (got it through Google Music) and never see ads. Would be upset if I was OP, but haven't experienced that issue myself.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I’ve never seen an ad on the youtube app, it’s just a bug. ___

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

https://invidious.io

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think they just got a cease and desist from Google yesterday.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah but they couldn't possibly shut down each and every instance

..right? I reall hope this statement doesn't age badly

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If they make it hard enough that they cannot host their code repo then they can't maintain it, it should be shutting them all down.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well yes, eventually, when they introduce breaking changes in YouTube.
Even so, I believe that today you can very well keep developing software even if you were not allowed to, unless you started committing with an account that personally identifies you, you can move to another hoster or host your own forge, maybe host it over Tor too, or try out the kinda experimental radicle.xyz (btw, why/when did they make their website uglier? It was so much better before)

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I'm also a premium YT subscriber and if I see this or they kick me off for using PiHole, I'll cancel my account and just set up some automation with YT-DLP to Plex or Infuse for channels I like watching. If youtube decided that it's their turn to get shitty like the rest of the popular internet, I'll be beyond upset.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

You can actually set up firewall settings to block any traffic coming from the ads, the only way they can stop that form of ad block is to block the person's IP address.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm mainly worried that some of the people I like watching on youtube will decide that youtube isn't worth it anymore and they'll stop making content entirely. Or even switch over to twitch, which I've never been able to get into.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

And this is why I just use an ad free YouTube client, literally provides better features for free

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Question, finally asked: Where do you get an ad free youtube client these days? Surely, posting a direct link here on Lemmy is not against rules?

I'd been using Revanced for quite a while, but then it eventually got caught up with and it stopped working. There was some hullabaloo about "fake" Revanced clones, and now I hear it's transformed into a "patcher". Only, on my phone I get a warning saying the patching may not work due to my processor or kernel or such -- and lo, it does not, the patching throws an exception late-ish in the process and I'm left with an unpatched youtube app.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

https://freetubeapp.io/

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Wait people actually pay for that shit 🤔

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yes and it worth it not to see garbage ads.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

to be fair you don't need premium to not have ads

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yes. I use a service so I pay for the service. I use software frameworks so I donate to their patreons.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Via VPN in India. Costs about 1$ per month.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

So you just need VPN for one time purchase or how? Asking for a friend.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The $1/mo is for a student account. The regular account is $1.5/mo, and a family account is $2.3/mo. You'd probably need to use a VPN every time you wanted to renew it (monthly, I suppose). There are annual plans with a 10% discount, so you could probably go for an annual membership and have to do it only once a year.

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