Yeah I stopped paying for premium once I’d figured out using Safari on my phone with an ad blocker works with YouTube still lol
I use Firefox with ublock on my phone and I get no ads. Or I watch them in Newpipe.
Which adblocker are you using on iOS?
If you use iOS devices for watching YouTube, look into side-loading uYou+, it’s basically an edited YouTube app that removes most of the ads. You can stream from your phone to the apple TV, too, also without ads. You don’t need a jailbroken phone or anything like that.
Adguard
DNS or an app? How does it work?
It works in safari and you can block anything like ublock. Not dns. You could run dns on a server and run your iphone’s network through it as well.
Grayjay on Android has been working damn near flawlessly for me. No clue if the parent company is to be trusted at this point or not- but I cannot argue with the results.
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I’d never heard of FUTO. It’s been around for a year and I can find so little information.
I know Louis Rossman is involved. I don’t agree with some of his views, but as far as tech freedom goes he seems to have the right idea.
Needs an ATV app.
Were you able to import your subscriptions? I haven’t been able to and that’s all that’s keeping me on Premium
Or sometimes it doesn’t let me play YouTube in a minimized floating way. Seems to be if I’ve been going back and forth between horizontal and vertical vids. Both normally allow floating minimized play but something about how they interact often leads me to having to force close the app, which loses me the custom queue I’ve been constructing. If the official solution is buggy…
I guess they are premium ads?
this but unironically
advertisers paid a premium
Good one! 🤣
Ad companies have the new subscription tier of Premium Buster, so now you have to upgrade to Premium Buster Buster
You can’t triple stamp a double stamp, you can’t triple stamp a double stamp!
I love seeing a Big Hit reference. Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one who’s ever seen that movie.
This is why I stopped paying them. Fuck them, you’re just an source of income to them.
Side loading works great for this and it’s free
I mean, yeah, what kind of relationship did you expect?
They’re not running youtube for the good of their heartLol godamnit I just found out YouTube is a business, you’re getting downvoted!
This is normal, nothing to see here… except these wonderful ads!! - YouTube
It is just YT testing new exciting features, nothing to worry about.
This looks like either a bug in the platform or people with Premium Lite. The article made no attempt at investigating this because all they did was to reprint complaints from anonymous people on Reddit. Customer support offering boilerplate reply about why someone is seeing ads sounds like par for the course here because it’s all either LLM chatbots or people in third world countries who couldn’t care less.
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Good, I hope they raise pricing too and pay creators even less. Make it hurt. It’s the only language users understand apparently.
I’d bet that channel “members” don’t get ads for that channel regardless of premium status.
IMO, Google made premium, almost nobody bought it. So they went after adblockers, hoping that people would get premium to get rid of the ads. People most just Adblock harder.
While this is happening, one exec is peering over the fence at twitch. Where they only way to get away from ads without a pretty good Adblock, is to subscribe to the individual creator.
So they make “memberships” to channels a thing.
Almost nobody buys that either. So they go… What if, even if someone is premium, we give them ads, unless they’re a channel member.
Genius.
Paying to block ads per creator/channel/whatever, is a special level of bullshit that twitch has always had.
The system is working as expected. The companies are trying to find the best way to extract the most value from you using their platform.
This is all conjecture right?
Indeed. I have absolutely no way of knowing anything for certain.
I’m just screaming into the void from this hellscape we call Earth.
People are buying memberships though?
Usually you see this for creatora like vtubers.
I like them but I will never consider memberships. At best I will sub to an actual service like floatplane or nebula
What ads? (User without premium, but proper browser and adblocker)
What I find the most hilarious is that on a rooted Android phone there is an app that hooks into the YouTube app and eliminates adds in it. Even when my PC with Firefox and UBlock get temporarily blocked in the battle between Google and ad blockers my phone using the standard app still doesn’t have adds.
I don’t know something about it is very satisfying to me.
Just use Grayjay.
Or if not that amazing app, the Revanced app.
Do you mind sharing the name of the app please?
Although I always use NewPipe / Tubular and Revanced as a backup solution.
It’s an LSposed/XPosed based app called YouTube Adaway. It also enables background playback.
YouTube ReVanced works without root
Firebox mobile + unlock origin extension + YouTube.com.
You get everything that YouTube premium can offer. Including screen off play.
On mobile you can use ReVanced.
personaldnsfilter + the Youtube app. Fuck ads.
One of my biggest issues with the ads is that they’re mostly scams. I just get ads for shit I know isn’t real
My tipping point was YouTube serving the same one ad months on end to me.
I was fine with ads a decade ago. I tolerated them increasing the amount five-fold over the years. But that was borderline torture, and getting an adblock was the only working solution.
Omg the Temu ad bombardment made me pull my hair out
A/b testing or code error?
With Alphabet, I treat anything related to delivering more ads as intentional.
