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I don’t see why buying youtube premuim is any better than just using ublock origin.
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.
I’ve never seen an ad on the youtube app, it’s just a bug. ___
SmartTube - if you’ve got an Android streaming box (like an NVIDIA Shield Pro, for example), sideload it. You’ll thank me later.
If one were interested, they would sideload what exactly?
I use this on my Google tv. Game changer.
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!
Corporations ☕
They be wanting them moneys. 🤷
What you thought that paying money would take away the ads?! (Laughs in profit)
Hey, another person who likes robot combat
Pretty typical for YouTube honestly, they’d try and justify it as saying it’s not an “as” it’s an “experience highlight” or something.
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.
You just need to upgrade to Premium Premium to get the privilage to skip the ad 2 seconds faster than Normal Premium.
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 use revanced without issues. But good to know about alternatives for when the day eventually comes…
Yes but from where do you obtain a version of Revanced that still works on current YouTube? That was my question.
Wait people actually pay for that shit 🤔
Via VPN in India. Costs about 1$ per month.
So you just need VPN for one time purchase or how? Asking for a friend.
The $1/mo is for a student account. The regular account is $1.5/mo, and a family account is $2.3/mo. You’d probably need to use a VPN every time you wanted to renew it (monthly, I suppose). There are annual plans with a 10% discount, so you could probably go for an annual membership and have to do it only once a year.
Thank you!
You can just use smart tube for TV and revanced for Android if you don’t wanna pay
Yes and it worth it not to see garbage ads.
to be fair you don’t need premium to not have ads
Yes. I use a service so I pay for the service. I use software frameworks so I donate to their patreons.
If I see one of those I’m cancelling my subscription and going back to the third party apps.
If they start inserting ads in videos I’m watching even though I literally pay them not to, I’ll be more than just mildly infuriated.
Ublock on Firefox> premium, they will always try to advertise even if you pay unfortunately
This even works on my tablet, even after they blocked vanced from playing videos.
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idk if you have heard but there is revanced
There’s also newpipe and libretube for android but neither play well on tablets. Good for the phone though.
But revance extended works great on both :-)
I have not, but I know what I’m installing tonight. Thanks, homie!
