Why paying for no longer having an ad free experience, if you can have a really ad free YouTube for free?
this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2024
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I"m just going to watch youtube less.
Ngl, I run Firefox and the usual suite of adblockers and haven't experienced any issues. I do the same on my phone (Firefox in "desktop mode").
smarttube.app
I didn’t use adblockers when they had occasional normal ad breaks. Now when I have to watch on a TV app its just a garbage experience.
I ❤️ FreeTube
YouTube is a monopoly. The reason no one really uses multiple platforms to upload videos at the same level as YouTube is because it was run for a long time at a lose to push out all competition. I have no simpthy.
On firefox I've been occasionally seeing ads leak into videos lately but refreshing usually fixes it.
And yet ppl get ads with premium cuz youtube says fuck you
IIRC that was specifically related to YouTube testing out a new Premium tier that allowed some ads, but also cost less, and only in specific markets.
Not everywhere, and not regular Premium subscriptions, unlike how most posts try to make it sound, including yours. But don't let the facts get in the way.
IIRC that was specifically related to YouTube testing out a new Premium tier that allowed some ads, but also cost less, and only in specific markets.
Not everywhere, and not regular Premium subscriptions
...for now.
Let's keep that in mind.
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I will not use youtube and use ads. The sooner they break my adblocker, the sooner i won't be on their platform
I really don't think they understand this... If an ad starts playing on YouTube I just turn it off and see why my ad blocker isn't working. If it doesn't work I simply don't watch the video. I had no desire to switch to Firefox because Chrome was just working for me, but then it didn't work. There's no way in hell I'm sitting here with my adhd addled brain, with my 4 year old phone in my hands watching for 30 seconds why I need a brand new acura.
The only time I've ever willingly watched an ad was tiktok. Because they know I can simply swipe and skip it, but sometimes the sponsored content is creative and entertaining.
You're part of less than 10% of the people watching YouTube, and you're in a 10% they won't care about because you aren't making them money anyhow.
They are also on here instead of reddit, so they are really in much more rarefied air.
google just made it so ad blockers using their engine will not work the same... probably why it was working fine then it didn't
They do understand it. They just believe the number of people who will do it are small enough to be worth it.
I guess. And you might be right. But the end goal of enshittifying everything is going to bottle out into unusable tech and the death of innovation.
And sadly, they're probably right. Just look at how many people are willing to sit there mindlessly absorbing messages from their corporate masters.
Supporting the creators, yeah, because thats what Google built their empire on top of.
Caring about people.
Actually the premium user is worth more to creators because a premium user gives them a bigger slice than ad users.
Most creaters (even smaller ones) doesn't care about revunue (YT creaters get paid if they're in YPP) loss from adblockers and lm pretty sure YouTubers also use adblock instead of paying Premium
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Newpipe!!!!
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