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I don’t see why buying youtube premuim is any better than just using ublock origin.
Probably just a morality thing. Even though some creators have spoken against its use because the experience is bad
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…
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.
What you thought that paying money would take away the ads?! (Laughs in profit)
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Thanks! I will do that on my Android TV right away.
For Android TV you have Smart Tube Next
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)
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 :)
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.
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
Ublock on Firefox> premium, they will always try to advertise even if you pay unfortunately
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
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.
Corporations ☕
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…
More like very infuriating, I pay for premium too, if I see ads I’ll be pissed!
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.
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.
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.
smarttube next my beloved
does this support 4k? Anything i’ve used that says they do actually don’t. FreeTube, Invidious, Piped
That’s not an ad. That’s a high quality premium product reminder. To remove these reminders please subscribe to YouTube Premium Plus.
Strange. I have Premium as well but I’ve never received an ad.
And this is why I just use an ad free YouTube client, literally provides better features for free
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.
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.
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.
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.
