Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon
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YT is only usable with ad blockers nowadays. And then it does not make a difference if you have a subscription or not.
I would subscribe YT if they had a reasonably priced ad free tier, but if it does not make a difference, I'll watch it for free.
schrieb am 6. Juni 2025, 08:02 zuletzt editiert von cosmonova@lemmy.world 6. Juni 2025, 10:05That way of thinking is a trap. They did have a more reasonably priced ad free tier but people using it only made it worse over time because it got so popular that Youtube could confidently raise prices and slash benefits. And the line has to go up. That‘s the only thing that matters to them.
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How about we collectively say fuck youtube and move content to Odysee or something else?
I'm fine with uBlock, but wouldn't it be better if we just kill alphabet progressively? I'm already out Gsuite (nextcloud), gmail (own server), search (duckduckgo), chrome (firefox), I dont even link my phone to a gmail account. i just need to get ride of yt.
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Cable TV executives didn't die off yet?
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Youtube is telling me daily that they'll soon disable my youtube because I have an ad blocker. Still waiting for it to actually happen.
schrieb am 6. Juni 2025, 08:07 zuletzt editiert von jdpoz@lemmy.world 6. Juni 2025, 10:10For your web browser, don’t use Chrome. Use Firefox with uBlock, NoScript, Sponsorblock, and a VPN like Mullvad.
For Smart TV usage, block your TV’s built in “smart functionality” and its access to the internet via MAC address blacklist on your router. Also use SmartTubeNext on a Shield Pro with FLauncher instead of Google’s.
For mobile, use 3rd party YouTube clients on your device like Vanced on Android, and Unwatched on iOS.
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I don’t use revanced, but freetube. I guess it’s similar.
It lets you play video without ads for free. It has a ui close enough to YouTube, which is nice.
Also you watch video anonymously. So it won’t propose video based on what you have watched before. Which is nice or not… you decide.
schrieb am 6. Juni 2025, 08:12 zuletzt editiert vonAh gotcha, similar to newpipe on android
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How does revanced work? How does it protect me from ads?
schrieb am 6. Juni 2025, 08:17 zuletzt editiert vonIt's an android only apk which you sideload and strips all adds from YouTube content.
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Youtube is telling me daily that they'll soon disable my youtube because I have an ad blocker. Still waiting for it to actually happen.
schrieb am 6. Juni 2025, 08:18 zuletzt editiert vonSame here. And I’m waiting for them to finally do it because it’ll free up so much of my time. I might start reading books again.
Also, it’s the last Google-service I’m using. So, banning me from it will allow me to finally delete my Google account.
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No, it's worse. With a cable DVR you can skip all commercials.
schrieb am 6. Juni 2025, 08:23 zuletzt editiert vonCan you, though? Because I remember when DVB started in Europe, they’ve sent a signal during commercials that makes your device block the fast forward feature.
I don’t know whether that’s still a thing. But you needed a hacked firmware on your TV / set top box to allow to FFWD through commercials back then.
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Exactly. If every ad-dependent website went offline tomorrow and all we were left with was Wikipedia, PeerTube, government/academia sites and a bunch of Geocities-esque "labor of love" hobbyist pages, nothing of value would be lost.
schrieb am 6. Juni 2025, 08:24 zuletzt editiert vonTrue, but my point was that even a lot of the commercial websites that do have other products do not depend on ads, e.g. Amazon and all the other stores would still be there, every company offering a paid service would still be there, every company providing a service related to their RL goods (e.g. specs, drivers, product descriptions, lists of stores where you can buy them,...) would still be there.
Advertising does not finance a very large percentage of the useful parts of the internet. And among those advertising financed websites that are useful a lot are essentially duplicates to get a chunk of the ad revenue without doing a lot of work (e.g. almost all news websites that just republish AP, Reuters,... content).
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Ah gotcha, similar to newpipe on android
schrieb am 6. Juni 2025, 08:26 zuletzt editiert vonYes but uses your Google login and is basically a wrapped YouTube clone.
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I think I'm understanding the playbook here.
Eventually YouTube will cost 89.99 a month and also be full of ads.
Then they will be disrupted by some startup company that will have to fight uphill for search and bandwidth access through Google's monopolistic front door.
Years later a court case will be decided and the new guy will be up and running a free service with a few ads or 1.99 a month for no ads!
And then we get to go through it all again.
schrieb am 6. Juni 2025, 08:38 zuletzt editiert vonThere is no end to the greed of those with millions and especially billions and they aren't content to just keep running a profitable business, they have to get all the money.
This is just the history of humanity and finances forever, the one saving grace in all this is every big business gets complacent in its money making and seeks ever increasing profit (and becomes management heavy) until a young upstart finds a way to do it a lot better and cheaper and disrupts the market. Google has become the big lumbering unable to change organisation seeking maximum profit now, its become IBM.
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I've been using Ublock origin for years and I've never seen a message like that
schrieb am 6. Juni 2025, 08:40 zuletzt editiert voncorrect me if I'm wrong, but I think ublock origin updates quickly enough to remove these notifications before most users see them
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My ublock origin was having issues today and I had to scale back some of the stuff being blocked.
schrieb am 6. Juni 2025, 08:44 zuletzt editiert vonMy ublock origin was having issues today
time to open Freetube and paste the link
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I've been using Ublock origin for years and I've never seen a message like that
schrieb am 6. Juni 2025, 08:45 zuletzt editiert von vga@sopuli.xyz 6. Juni 2025, 10:46I’ve been using Ublock origin for years
Same here. I started seeing them this week.
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Youtube has ads?
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And with that I can confirm I will continue to use adblock.
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I've been using Ublock origin for years and I've never seen a message like that
schrieb am 6. Juni 2025, 08:58 zuletzt editiert vonI don't even login so I don't know what they are going to disable.
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That was the reason to use Play Music when it was a thing. Upload all your torrented music and stream it for free.
schrieb am 6. Juni 2025, 09:05 zuletzt editiert vonI just had all the music on my phone
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Youtube has ads?
schrieb am 6. Juni 2025, 09:19 zuletzt editiert von a_norny_mousse@feddit.org 6. Juni 2025, 11:21(https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases )
Imagine paying for "Premium Lite"
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YouTube music is better than music on youtube, particularly for people with slow or capped internet.
schrieb am 6. Juni 2025, 09:25 zuletzt editiert vonAnd it's better for people who want to listen to more than just a few songs, for people who need an organized collections, playlists, etc. In other words, for those who need a music streaming service. YouTube isn't one.
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