I think that's fine. Let the non-tech-savvy users pay for the service. It seems like they deserve it, and also they keep YT running for "free".

You can keep enjoying YT with Firefox + uBO or PipePipe on your phone.

I'm not going to debate you on that, but the original commenter was saving people the effort of reading a pointless article, and getting shat on for it.

I didn't think that was fair.

I read it it comes off as an ad for premium

And that ain’t the solution

I don't care if you want to debate it, the point of the article is wrong. The original commenter doesn't deserve the hate, but their summary of the article, while being accurate to the article, is not a real work around.

I didn't attack them, so I'm not in disagreement there. But you chose a rather respectful reply to be the disrespectful hill you chose to die on.

Have you noticed uBlock Origin being a bit hit and miss on YouTube lately? I’ve had it happen a few times lately where the video won’t play, or an ad comes up but doesn’t play. I’ve had to keep refreshing until it gets to normal where it just plays the damn video.

AdNauseum still works; so do many others.

I'm saying it yourself to them for us

I think youtube might have implemented something that prevents the server from delivering the video files until the expected duration of the ad has passed. This idea is completely unfounded, but this is what it feels like to me.

I use different shared PCs at work and this happens every time on the Windows 11 machines. Some ad plays before the video, but disappears when I refresh the page. This doesn't happen on the Win 10 machines we still have left. In forced to use Chrome there but everything has UBlock Lite enabled.

"If your adblock doesn't work, a workaround is to pay for YouTube Premium"

AW NO I HADN'T FUCKING THOUGHT OF THAT

"Adblock Plus"
Me: WHAT YEAR IS THIS?

@moe90@feddit.nl I've found a better workaround, which is to tell YouTube to go pound sand. I definitely don't miss YouTube since I stopped accessing it more than a year ago (actually, I don't even remember when I stopped, it's really been a long while). Okay, maybe I miss one or other content (Technology Connections, Electroboom and Numberphille to mention a few I used to watch), but this didn't stop me from stopping using YouTube altogether. Sad thing Alec, Mehdi as well as the people behind Numberphille either don't know or aren't willing to use alternatives (e.g. PeerTube) to share their knowledge with the Internet.

There's a Portuguese maxim "Falem bem ou falem mal, mas falem de mim" (roughly translatable to "Talk goodly or badly, but talk about me") and this is perfectly fit for YouTube vs Premium vs AdBlockers: people (both content creators and their consumers) are understandably enraged with YouTube and its enshitification, yet they continue to access it instead of boycotting it to, hopefully, reduce the power and monopoly that Google have with YouTube.

ABP hasn't been relevant for years, because they started on "acceptable ads" back in 2011.

Anyone with sense has long since moved on.

No. It works across all my systems. I never see ads on YT. However...

Videos not loading or playing delayed: That's a YT feature which they implemented for Firefox users, to annoy them. And to promote Chrome as "the fastest" webbrowser.

I also have dns issues at home... I should fix them already. Sometimes, a page doesn't load on the first try.

I haven't had any issues like that, it's been working fine for me

Or even better, Librewolf.

The YouTube app on my old tablet has been breaking on ads recently. First it stopped playing and then it wouldn't even resume. Their own app. On playing ads. No ad blockers. Fuck you I'm not paying premium.

What if people just learned to use Firefox or NewPipe?

I think you stopped scrolling too early

That said though, there is one ad blocker that still works. Two words: uBlock Origin. Yes, I know that Google has blocked it from its Chrome Extension store, but there is still a way to get uBlock Origin on Chrome that our how-to extraordinaire Kaycee has detailed.

They even link to what I assume is that process.

But...

It costs the same as Spotify

I used Google Play music and it was awesome, when it shuttered I tried Spotify and didn't like it.

YouTube premium is worth it just for music on your phone/car, getting YouTube ad free is kind of just a bonus. But there's a couple podcasts I watch on there, and I've found a couple really good channels for all the crazy science stuff that's been happening. Not to mention a lot of UK shows upload full episodes, and there's more than one account that somehow uploads full runs of shows after being upscaled to 4k.

I really don't understand why so many people are against YouTube premium. It makes sense if someone just pirates all their other media. But people pay for a music streamer and a couple TV streamers.... It seems like an arbitrary line.

Edit:

The article is from "toms guide" not "toms hardware".

The guide has every article like this where it reads like paid advertising. The "hardware" one is a good resource.

But yeah, pretty much anything from "tomsguide" is going to read like paid advertising for something. I legit don't know if they're affiliated or it's a ripoff site built to confuse people with the "hardware" site.

The article even links to a guide to get it on chrome

That said though, there is one ad blocker that still works. Two words: uBlock Origin. Yes, I know that Google has blocked it from its Chrome Extension store, but there is still a way to get uBlock Origin on Chrome that our how-to extraordinaire Kaycee has detailed.