Imagine paying money to see 2 fucking ads before a video.
As another reply said already
Imagine cable tv! (in the US at least, and, it seems, Canada, too)
It is so absurd until you realize people already accepted that shit… wtf!!!
Yes, but this is german and in Germany most TV is free with ads or paid without ads.
No, most TV in Germany is either paid and with ads (ARD, ZDF, or private stations with HD+) , or free and with even more ads (RTL, Pro7 etc. in SD resolution). Paid TV without ads (Sky) is only used by a small minority
And the few ad supported stations that are free are only free if you use Satellite TV, half of Germany still uses cable TV and has to pay a monthly fee to Vodafone for those, in addition to our broadcasting fees that everyone has to pay
Source: Am German
Okay, it is possible to get them for free (except the ÖR which I forgot, because the fee is mandatory for each household) which is what I meant but yes, there are lots of ads, but american TV also has I would say as many ads.
Source: also German
You just described Amazon Prime TV
Imagine paying money to watch YouTube.
🎶cable🎶
Tele license
Fucking called it
The only benefit now, but what if they start to serve 30 non-skippable ads without premium and ONLY 5 with premium, what a deal! Right?
the “lesser evil” strategy is so hot rn
Does lemmy have agedlikewine and agedlikemilk?
wpggLol that is gold
Ugh, you didn’t even pay for Premium Plus?
Bloody peasant…
This is why you get anti-anti-adblock userscripts in tampermonkey inside of your browser and/or the same inside of adguard for windows. Along with an adblocking DNS
Give them an inch and they’ll take 1000 miles. No more money for google, ever.
Don’t disable uBlock Origin, even when you have YT premium. Using Chrome counts as disabling uBlock Origin
Also, don’t pay for youtube premium if they’re going to serve you ads either way
At that point, you’re just paying for YouTube Music.
Another rip off
Brave still allows uBO to work.
I feel like you don’t fully understand that the line can go up. At the expense of everything…
How is this a shitpost? Is it a fake screenshot?
YouTube is a shitpost.
- Web: Firefox + uBlock Origin
- Mobile (Android only): Grayjay
- TV (Android): Smarttube
- iPhone/iPad: Brave Browser
Enjoy
- PC: FreeTube
Also available unofficially for Android.
My premium is about to run out, and I had solutions for both my TV and phone via my TV’s homebrew store and ReVanced. Didn’t know that Brave just completely shut down ads on iPad, though. Amazing tip, thanks a bunch!
A more bigger list:
Web: Firefox (or any firefox fork on apple tech you can use safari + adguard) with Ublock origin + libreredirect. The yt frontend sites: Invidious,Piped(broken at this time),Poketube (my personal favorite)
Mobile (Android and Ios): Yattee(The only ios client, broken can only stream local downloaded content or from Poketube servers.),Clipious (invidious client built with flutter),Libretube(Piped,broken at this time),Grayjay (source available not strictly youtube client),Vlc media player (Ios and android not strictly a yt client it can play downloaded videos or stream from poketube servers),Tubular(Newpipe with sponsor block and return youtube dislike not strictly a yt client you can use regular newpipe aswell.),Freetube(unofficial).
PC(Linux,Windows and Macos): Plasmatube, (fits well with kde plasma a little to quiet),QTube(Yt client built with qt,Embeds yts site),Freetube (if your fine with Electron which is using chromium),Vlc media player (said above).
Am I just an idiot or is Yattee basically unusable?
It is unusable for me aswell(I tried it on my moms iphone), I changed the reply so that people know.
I want Yattee to succeed. When I could get it to work (like 5% of the time), it was refreshing that I was searching for and finding my own videos, not just being distracted by and fed the YouTube algorithm.
Additionally, there’s freetube for android, newpipe, tubular (newpipe with sponsorblock), and safari + adguard
also grayjay is source available rather than open source
Thanks for correcting me and adding more frontends, I just out some on top of my mind.
If it’s true and I get ads on my Premium (which… to be fair I’m not paying full price anyway 😅), it may be the last push I needed to finally start reading books again…
Nothing will ever be the push you are looking for
I did it! Canceled Premium!
I thought maybe to change it to a sub to Nebula or something… but then I realized it’d be like trading heavy cigarette smoking for heavy vape smoking.
Now begins the « ween the brain off overstimulation » phase 😅
What ads? (Firefox and adblocker)
Yep… although… Lately my TV PC’s CPU has been groaning under the weight of all the Firefox addons required to make YouTube usable lol.
YouTube ads cost about $0.026 (two and a half cents) per 30 seconds of viewing. This is called cpv.
It’s not fair that ss a viewer I’m not able to bid on my own to show myself an empty ad slot. I’m looking at the price of premium and it definitely seems like more revenue for YouTube than I’d give them from ads.
Books don’t have intrusive ads. Stop consuming YouTube slop.
I am very intelligent
Is this look like a Slop?
Bullshit. I’ve read books with obvious ads in them.
They can have product placement
Those are some preem ads, choom.
It’s probably a bug. And to excuse the devs at Youtube, this is the first and only Premium client.
Is it really a bug or is it just boiling the frog slowly?
I get ads on premium sometimes. I think it’s a fluke but def unacceptable
Is it really a fluke or just boiling the frog slowly?
Oooh, like when the whole purpose of paying for cable television was no ads?
Damn I just have ublock origin, so I never get ads and I don’t pay a cent. Hope your premium membership works out for you tho
Thanks, I’m still grandfathered in at the beta price, but I mainly use it for discovering music to add to my Plex collection. The free YouTube is a bonus for me.
I know it’s temporary, I’ll probably cancel when Im asked to pay full price
I didn’t realize that they still had grandfather’s subscriptions, I was the same where I got it at a lower price, but they decided that they weren’t going to honor that price 2 years ago and raised it anyway. I’ve told myself I’m dropping the sub if it goes up again because honestly it’s current price is a little outrageous. But I watch over a thousand hours of YouTube a year so therefore it’s worth it to me.
The thing is I don’t think I’m supposed to be. They said they’d terminate it so I’m just grateful for the borrowed time I have.
I’ve been subscribed since the minute GPM launched the beta.
I get ads on premium sometimes. I think it’s a fluke but def unacceptable
That’s among the reasons why even with premium an ad blocker is required.
It’s a bug with the android app.
I’ve seen it maybe 3 times in 8ish years on my phone. Never once in the TV app.
Check if you still have premium?
That’s what the circled logo in the top left is for
I know, but maybe it’s related to:
If you haven’t “accepted” the new prices, maybe you get this half-assed Premium.
