I guess they are premium ads?
this post was submitted on 14 Nov 2024
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this but unironically
advertisers paid a premium
Ad companies have the new subscription tier of Premium Buster, so now you have to upgrade to Premium Buster Buster
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Good one! 🤣
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.
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!
Side loading works great for this and it's free
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.
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.
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!
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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I've been using thus too. Works great.
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It is just YT testing new exciting features, nothing to worry about.
This is normal, nothing to see here... except these wonderful ads!! - YouTube
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...
A/b testing or code error?
With Alphabet, I treat anything related to delivering more ads as intentional.
Just surf the seas.
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.
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?