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[–] kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago
[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 362 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Christ, premium light is still fucking 8 dollars a month and you don't even get rid of ads. The greed is fucking astounding.

I'll stick to an adblocker, dickheads.

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 83 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Newpipe is all I have. I signed up for a couple creators patreon to support those I really like. Fuck Google. They are here for the investors bottom line not our shit. But people just want their shit and it perpetuates this behavior. My friend said he pays to support the creators he likes. He supports the giant corporation holding these creators ransom. Just send them money directly. Use new pipe or whatever. Quit supporting this shit and let the whole thing die until we realize there has to be a better way.

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[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 57 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Firefox+uBlock Origin on the computer.

ReVanced on my Android phone.

SmartTubeNext on my Android TV.

I haven't seen a YouTube ad in years.

[–] TwanHE@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

I've gotten some home page ads on revanced lately, but they'll surely be patched out soon again

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 97 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Genuinely though, the point of YouTube premium is to get rid of the ads...

We seem to be making cable TV again where you pay a premium for the privilege of being advertised to

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 80 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] credo@lemmy.world 81 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Premium but without the music. And with ads apparently.

[–] johnlukepeckard@lemmy.wtf 20 points 1 week ago

Before this change it was with ads for music content.

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 61 points 1 week ago

I guess it’s their “pay for ads” tier which sounds fucking stupid to me.

[–] don@lemm.ee 21 points 1 week ago

Premium Sike.

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[–] BertramDitore@lemmy.zip 64 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Or, and hear me out: just install a browser plugin and forget ads exist.

I hesitate to name extensions names, but I’ve literally never seen an ad on YouTube.

These companies don’t respect us, so I don’t feel the need to respect them by allowing them to force their meaningless bullshit down my throat.

I don’t use it that much, but you better believe if I go to YouTube to watch a video, that video is the only thing I’m watching.

[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 82 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

This ain't reddit. You can freely name extension names here.

uBlock Origin

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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Firefox + ublock origin + sponsorblock and I haven't seen an ad on youtube in all the years since I started that combo.

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[–] HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 55 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Cable TV providers in the 70s: "No commercials when you pay for our services!"

Cable TV providers in the early 80s: "Ok, we actually meant no commercials on premium channels, but local channels will, and it's not our fault."

Cable TV providers in the late 80s: "Fine. What we meant was no commercials on movie channels."

Cable TV providers in the 90s: "Uhm, so only on-demand shows will be commercial free."

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[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 49 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Lul I have uBlock origin and no ads for free

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And with that I can confirm I will continue to use adblock.

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

🤷(https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases)

Imagine paying for "Premium Lite"

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 42 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Youtube is telling me daily that they'll soon disable my youtube because I have an ad blocker. Still waiting for it to actually happen.

[–] sykaster@feddit.nl 37 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I've been using Ublock origin for years and I've never seen a message like that

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[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I think I'm understanding the playbook here.

Eventually YouTube will cost 89.99 a month and also be full of ads.

Then they will be disrupted by some startup company that will have to fight uphill for search and bandwidth access through Google's monopolistic front door.

Years later a court case will be decided and the new guy will be up and running a free service with a few ads or 1.99 a month for no ads!

And then we get to go through it all again.

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[–] tonytins@pawb.social 38 points 1 week ago (4 children)

This is literately the equivalent of cable.

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They are really dedicated to helping foster the pirate side of the Web, aren't they?

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (20 children)

Premium Lite? What paid benefits are there to YouTube other than removing ads?

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[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 27 points 1 week ago

It feels insane to me that you're paying and you still get ads. I fucking refuse to do that

[–] Maverick604@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I tried watching a 30 minute video on YouTube the other day and it injected ads every 1 minute for the entire video. Fuck Google. Fuck YouTube. Fuck Alphabet.

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[–] antithetical@lemmy.deedium.nl 22 points 1 week ago

It's a sad state of affairs. I would pay for youtube in a heartbeat if it wasn't connected to the biggest spyware company in the world. But now, even while paying you still get ads and they still track you. The people working at Alphabet are bad and should feel bad.

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago
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