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Haha. This is something that they have been testing for some time now. I ended up changing to YouTube premium a few years ago from Spotify and I think it’s pretty good!
I find it hilarious that people down vote me. It’s horrible apparently to be subscribing to something that’s google…
sUbSriBin 2 aNy guGeL sErviCes mAkez u ev1LL…
Basically those that down voted my comment lol
Guess we found the stone with blood in it.
Which is fine… until YouTube premium gets a massive price increase to try and capitalise on subscription apathy.
i left spotify when they paid joe rogan podcast. the 50 shuffle limit also annoyed me because 300 songs on a playlist get missed. youtube premium is no ads youtube and music
For me it was Spotify’s patent on manipulating people’s mood with music, noped right out of there after that. I’m in a position where I can afford to go back to buying songs, so I actually did that (better for the artist and I don’t have to worry about any recommendation algorithm accidentally making me depressed because depressed = “more engagement”).
I’m not sure if it was related but, coincidentally, I found my mental state in a far better place about a year later.
It’s like saying fascism is great if you just lick the boot.
You’re missing the entire point.
That is one insane way of twisting words but you do you…
The communities here can be like that. Personally if you like the service and are willing to pay, why not? Comparing this with facism is doing facism and those who live and lived under facist regimes a disservice.
Totally agree with you…
🙄
Some people just love the taste, you know?
Kinda weird how eager some people are to brag about how much they love paying for YouTube Premium, though. Sometimes repeatedly, and as a response to every other comment. Like a paid ad, almost. Just being proud of paying for things is weird on its own but… damn, stinks like Google’s paying them back well to behave like they’re starving for it to come give them a cookie. Maybe it’s bots. … Nah, humans will serve their favourite companies at no charge and without any effort to make them. Bleh.
There used to be a trick where you can skip ads in youtube app by pretending to report it. i’ve used that to skip the 2x30s unskippable ads over the years, but that was patched recently.
So instead of occasionally watching ads while scrolling through comments, I’ve now opt to watch youtube in browser with UblockOrigin. And good luck to google for playing catch-22 with adblockers.
Shame that I used to have youtube in my adblock whitelist
Does this mean anything for pipe? Still don’t now how that actually works
I have yet to see one of those messages. Proud uBlock user.
I just canceled my youtube premium account after about 7 years of constant membership.
The recent price increase was crap. The service I receive hasn’t improved - actually with their shitty compression even on “4k” videos my enjoyment has really decreased.
But, the big driver were ads. With premium I didn’t see ads, instead I was increasingly bombarded with “words from our sponsor” all over videos.
Anyway, I recommend freetube. For now at least, it actually blocks all ads including sponsor blocks.
I won’t pay a monthly fee to be google’s advertising product.
YouTube is so horrible now I hope it’s reaching the tipping point where even non tech people may get sick of it and look elsewhere. There is no reason to have ONE giant main fucking video site and that’s it for most of the English speaking world. I need to look up how to do grout…or open this smoke detector…or beat this video game…no reason that all these videos cannot be hosted via other websites or just self hosted with the affordability of bandwidth. I’ve loved most of what google has done for a long time and they won the browser wars, crushed Mapquest, destroyed hotmail and yahoo mail…now everything is turning to shit. Google search all but refuses to find what you’re searching for. 15 second video…30 second ad. No.
I don’t know if federation is the answer but YouTube being ubiquitous for internet video has got to go.
There’s no shot youtube will be dethroned any time too. Hosting that amount of video is absurdly expensive.
Same is true about Reddit but we all here
It’s not even close. Text and image content doesn’t come near what YouTube has to deal with.
Reddit does have video, lemmy (at least for now) doesn’t, and I’m sure a huge part of that is cost.
In saying we are here I’m not saying we are succeeding…I’m saying we’re trying
Eh, lemmy -> reddit is not without scaling issues, but reddit doesn’t upload 10s of terabytes of video every day, much smaller infrastructure required than youtube.
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PiHole doesn’t work on YouTube ads
They didn’t mention that—did they edit their comment?
Quick edit: everyone should also have a PiHole, mine hasn’t been touched in years and does a bang-up job at blocking any regular ads (ads that, like the commenter I’m replying to mentioned, aren’t hosted on the same server you’re viewing stuff on)
YouTube ads come from the same domain as their video streams, so DNS-based ad blocking like PiHole can’t work on them.
Fuck this shit with the force of a billion adblockers.
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Just yesterday they stopped allowing me to see home page and recommendations unless I turn on watch history, which I am not doing ever. So they can keep forcing my hand and see how far it goes. If anything am stubborn enough to enjoy this kind of petty behavior from major players. They keep thinking “oh they will just do what we ask them to”, but I’ll do the opposite out of spite. I’ll just use !videos or similar communities to find my recommendations until the day comes where I stop using it completely. I quit Facebook this way, quit Reddit and Twitter, quit WhatsApp. Keep at it guys, let’s see who’s more stubborn.
I actually didn’t care when there was an ad in the beginning of the video or what not. It was when I had to start watching multiple ads in the middle of a 10 minute video as well. Like come on, not even broadcast TV is that annoying.
I used to keep it off on sites I wanted to have revenue but everyone uses them to annoy the user into subscriptions anymore so it’s not worth turning it off.
The future looks grim if that WEI thing comes to practice. But it’s my understanding that identifying the ‘undesired’ browser is done by fingerprinting? In that case you could just fake it by using JShelter, even fake the extensions you’re using. Not sure how they’re gonna fend Revanced if at all.
Stay strong everybody
They can absolutely go fuck themselves. I’ve already weened myself off of nearly every social media, stopped paying for YT premium because they keep doing bullshit I don’t like. I’m so ready for an alternative.
Aw that’s so cute, they think they’ll be able to stop adblockers from working for more than a few days. Just like everyone else before them. Good luck with that guys.
