It is a well-known thing that browser adblockers often fail to play nicely with YouTube these days. However, even if you paid for Premium Lite, Google says it will soon push even more ads.
    • Mihies@programming.devEnglish
      4·
      6 months ago

      I would of if there was a family tier that plays YouTube without ads in my country. The content I watch is good and authors deserve payment IMO. Sadly there is currently no competition, there are some marginal subscription services and there is peertube which doesn’t have monetization.

          • venusaur@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            I agree. I guess I don’t watch YouTube enough for it to be a big burden. Just mute it for a few seconds.

            • Mihies@programming.devEnglish
              1·
              6 months ago

              If it was only few seconds. At best you can skip after 5s but then you get plenty of 15-50s ads every 5+ minutes or so with some videos. It makes it almost impossible to watch it.

  • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
    343·
    6 months ago

    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.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      151·
      6 months ago

      I truly, truly don’t get it.

      Ublock Origin + Firefox still works.

      Works just fine.

      Been that way for over a decade.

      Yes, if you’re more privacy concerned (and there are good reasons to be) you can use some other browser, something like NewPipe, or Invidious…

      But I just don’t get why any normie, ever, goes for YT Premium…

      • Serinus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        6 months ago

        Ublock Origin + Firefox

        YouTube started detecting and complaining about that yesterday (for me).

        • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          4·
          6 months ago

          It complained about it for me as well.

          And then kept working.

          I am currently crippled and basically just do PT, shitpost on lemmy, and watch youtube… all day long.

          If it was gonna block me after 3 videos, it missed it by about 100.

    • KingJalopy @lemm.eeEnglish
      811·
      6 months ago

      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.

      • Korkki@lemmy.mlEnglish
        17·
        6 months ago

        Why think of the consumer when you have practical monopoly on online video content distribution. If the creators are on youtube so will their audience and vice versa. Where will any of them go if you squeeze?

    • Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish
      521·
      6 months ago

      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.

      • Usually_Lurker@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        6 months ago

        This is the way!!

        I even subscribed to youtube premium when it came bundled with music streaming as well. back then it was a good deal. They kept raising prices and making the end product worse. Now it just seems obnoxious.

      • TwanHE@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

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

      • BurntWits@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        In case anyone is reading this and using an iPhone, Orion is the only iOS browser afaik to currently support uBlock Origin. I haven’t had a single ad since discovering that. Picture in Picture mode works too, as long as you go full screen with the video before swiping home. Hope this helps someone.

      • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        As of yesterday YouTube is blocking videos for me. Until that’s solved, I’m just not watching YouTube. Not a big loss.

        • Yeather@lemmy.caEnglish
          4·
          6 months ago

          This happens from time to time. Open a private window and sign in, or wait a couple of hours for the prompt to reset. Ublock will update in a week or so to get rid of the prompts until the next time YouTube updates the detection software.

  • boughtmysoul@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    6 months ago

    Wait. I pay for YouTube with my time, the most important resource I have access to. There’s a level where you pay money and STILL SEE ADS?

  • no banana@lemmy.worldEnglish
    162·
    6 months ago

    I feel like youtube is losing sight of why users are paying for the service then.

    To me, personally, youtube is useful enough that I will keep paying to remove ads entirely (in combination with ublock). That being said, there will come a time when the value proposition is no longer balanced. Then I will stop paying, and probably stop using it as well.

    But as always with Google, I question whether their motive is to kill another service. They’re very competent at that specific thing.

    • Jimmycakes@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      6 months ago

      They just want users who are paying full freight as they know the ad business is in step decline.

      • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        6 months ago

        Is it in decline? I mean, I want to believe it, but I haven’t seen any hard data on that.

          • taladar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            5·
            6 months ago

            The internet isn’t built on it. The commercial websites who do not have other products (as in all the websites related to RL goods, stores,…) are.

            • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
              4·
              6 months ago

              Exactly. If every ad-dependent website went offline tomorrow and all we were left with was Wikipedia, PeerTube, government/academia sites and a bunch of Geocities-esque “labor of love” hobbyist pages, nothing of value would be lost.

              • taladar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                5·
                6 months ago

                True, but my point was that even a lot of the commercial websites that do have other products do not depend on ads, e.g. Amazon and all the other stores would still be there, every company offering a paid service would still be there, every company providing a service related to their RL goods (e.g. specs, drivers, product descriptions, lists of stores where you can buy them,…) would still be there.

                Advertising does not finance a very large percentage of the useful parts of the internet. And among those advertising financed websites that are useful a lot are essentially duplicates to get a chunk of the ad revenue without doing a lot of work (e.g. almost all news websites that just republish AP, Reuters,… content).

          • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            content creator on youtube had to resort to patreon, brand deals and promotion to stay afloat.

    • cyberwolfie@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      And it has an Android fork (FreeTube Android), and can have playlists, subscriptions etc. synced across devices with Syncthing. It does sometimes result in sync conflicts though, but if you reload it before using it on a device, you will be fine. Most sync conflicts I get are for history, and that’s fine by me to lose some history.

  • frog_brawler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    6 months ago

    YouTube already had too many ads, and I stopped using as a result. That was several months ago. I guess I’ll just have to stop using it even harder.

          • paulzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            6 months ago

            That happened to me once. I think it was I Heart Huckabees. It started and people were so confused. I half think David O Russel asked them to do it to throw people off.

      • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        6 months ago

        Yeah, horrible innit? When I used to go to the cinema as a kid in the 70s and 80s, you’d get maybe ten minutes of trailers before your film. And I never minded that, I don’t dislike watching trailers. These days, totally different. Last time I went to the cinema there was maybe half an hour of ads. Some trailers, but mostly just advertisements for crap.

        It is so fuckin disrespectful to their customers. If I wanted to see all that bullshit, I could have stayed home and watched it on TV. Except I don’t watch TV because the experience is so poor - largely because of ads.

        I understand that cinemas have been struggling ever since covid, even before, and I understand that advertising revenue pays the bills. But cinema isn’t cheap, for me it’s an occasional treat when there’s something I really wanna see on the big screen. I do not want to spend that much money and get treated like a fuckin farm animal being fed crap. Wankers.

        I can’t be alone in feeling this way, who wants to pay to see ads? Who thinks that sounds like a great evening out? It ruins the experience, and it’s insulting, by the time the movie starts I’m angry. I’d rather pay a bit more and just have a couple of trailers.

        I recently went to a small autonomous cinema with a mate and saw Mulholland Drive. Great experience, comfy seats, could bring in drinks from the bar, no fuckin ads. But for new films there aren’t many options. So I don’t often go to the cinema.

        Sorry for this long and bitter diatribe! You just hit on something that really pisses me off too.

        • black0ut@pawb.socialEnglish
          3·
          6 months ago

          I’ve started to go 15-20 minutes late. I’ve never missed a minute of movie, but I’ve skipped so many ads.