My credit card has expired and thus my youtube premium with it.
I received some alerts from YT before it happened and now the subscription has been terminated and the first video I watched without the premium had 3 ads in 5 minutes.
3 ads. In 5 minutes.
I’m disgusted. My hatred towards the greedy corporations has been gradually exceeding the boiling point for the past couple of years and now I experienced how YouTube tries to force it’s users to pay the tribute.
I’m using YT a lot so I’d take no issue paying if it just improved the experience, but not if it’s the only way to use the “free” app. I’m not gonna get my money extorted by a fucking corporation.
Fuck them, intalling ReVanced now.
On PC and Android: Firefox with the following add-ons, ublock and SponsorBlock
On Android TV: SmartTube
Best option for me until now.
I pay for it but don’t use on anything but the TV…
Higher bit rate is worth the money
But god dam. I hate paying Google for it
Look into Playlet if you have a Roku. I think YouTube is constantly fighting against this one, so I’ll often run into errors when trying to select videos from directly in the app, but it seems to work great for me casting videos from my phone to the TV app. No YouTube ads, and it also includes SponsorBlock to skip sponsor spots in the videos.
If youtube premium added a feature that filters out AI created slop, it may be worth paying for. I don’t know what happened but the amount of it on youtube now is unbelievable.
If YT had a simple ad-free tier that was £10 a month for a family, I would gladly pay for it. But as it stands, they want £20+ just so my wife and I can watch videos on Apple TV without having to tolerate a ridiculous amount of adverts.
So fuck 'em. She watches on her PC with a bunch of adblockers, and I download what I want to watch into my Plex folder. And they get sweet fuck all out of me instead.
I pay but it’s mostly for music streaming, we use the heck out of that, and streaming is a choose your poison thing. Google Play Music was the best streaming app ever built, YouTube music not as good but still ahead of Spotify for what we listen to. The ad free YouTube is a side effect.
It’s disgusting how something people need to survive is being commercialized and, wait, hold on, you’re talking about an online video app.
Its disgusting how something people need to survive is being commercialized and, wait, hold on, you’re spending your free time posting to meaningless social media posts like Lemmy.
so what?
Use freetube on pc and tubetube on Android
Thank me later
I uninstalled the app and just watch videos on the Firefox mobile browser now. Not only does uBlock Origin block all the ads, but the interface is less buggy, and it can play audio through the lock-screen (a basic feature that Google inexplicably locks behind a paywall). There are a few drawbacks, like playlists not auto-playing, but generally it’s a much better experience than the official app or chrome.
like playlists not auto-playing
It’s probably a setting on your end. It does do that on my end with the same combo.
It might just be when the playlist is collapsed or the lock-screen is on. I did just test it with the tab open and the playlist expanded and it seemed to work fine. Either way, I rarely use playlists, so it doesn’t come up much.
Firefox + uBlock Origin = no youtube ads
No longer working for me. Only way it now works if I’m not logged in to YT.
Don’t log in to youtube
I log in because it keeps a history of previously watched videos as well as playlists. It’s a useful feature to give up for many folks.
not everyone hates yt reccommended algorithms
“doctor, it hurts when I do this”
“then don’t do that”
Add SponsorBlock and Enhancer for Youtube and you will have (some) peace. There are also addons that remove suggestions, but you can do that with UBO anyway
DeArrow, from the SponsorBlock creator, fixes thumbnails and titles of videos too.
Also Grayjay
This sounds like a problem I’m too PipePiped to understand.
I don’t know why anyone would willingly pay a penny to a power hungry corporation like Google.
Thank you! I can’t get ReVanced to work on my phone and this is a good alternative
You’re welcome!
I also tried Revanced and I just didn’t feel like bothering with the hassle. It’s probably more seamless though.
Firefox mobile + origin also works on android
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My preferred method is a python script that takes a YouTube video in my clipboard and uses yt-dlp to download it to a folder that my Plex server watches.
There are easier ways to achive this, but I like the manual approach. It means I don’t vegetate on the sofa, scrolling through everything. Also, it means my hard drive doesn’t fill up with videos I’ll never get around to watching.
I use a similar approach but i subscribe to channels with pinchflat and it downloads them to a folder for jellyfin. I like that i only get my channels and cant keep “exploring”.
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I’ve never had any youtube subscription.
Why would I pay for that garbage?
Glad you got away from it.
I definitely don’t want to watch ads but would still like to support the creators I enjoy. And apparently views from Premium users pay quite well compared to ad plays.
Then join their patrion or whatever service most youtubers have, and you kbow the money goes directly to the creator
So watch the ads/deal with YouTube being slower with Adblock, and sign up for a lot of Patreon subs?
I’d rather pay the subscription.
No, fuck youtube and support the creators directly, revanced all the way
Consider nebula.tv
I pay for a YT subscription, but I use ReVanced on top of that. I can’t stand the ad’s on top of sponsored segments on top of the shitty, non-customizable, UI.
