To everyone who is saying they use adblock and haven't seen this yet: YouTube probably rolled this out to a smaller percentage of users first. It allows them to understand how this change impacts user behaviour, e.g. how many users comply and disable their adblocker, how many more users close YouTube than usual etc. Most tech companies do this type of analysis before releasing a high impact change to all users.

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I do close youtbe much quicker than I used to. I can watch one video and rhan I'm done. The next video starts with a full minte of ads and I'm out. I know there's stuff like ReVanced, but I keep wondering wether it's all worth it.

[–] ididntsayanything@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

For iOS users Vinegar is a nice add-on for Safari that strips out all the ads etc.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Revanced: Blocked, huh? You don't say.

[–] vendetta@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 years ago

I've seen YouTube already detected apps like ReVanced and still gave that warning

[–] DrummyB@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (13 children)

Probably get shit for this, but…

I just pay for Premium.

YT has literally become my cable. I listen to music, watch movies, documentaries, stand up comedy, news, sports… and cat videos, obviously.

To me it’s just worth it to pay a bit of money each month and have the whole thing just available to me.

I feel like if you were to put a money value on all the complaining, stomping of feet and trying to side-step the ads I’ve seen over the last several years, you’d probably find it’s actually less to just pay and enjoy it.

Just my opinion, of course…

[–] mr_right@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

you do you if you use it that much and you think it's worth your money then good for you ( i honestly mean it ) we don't like youtube ads, YES that is true but it is not the only reason :

some of us hate youtube ( and google by extent ) for tracking
some of us hate youtube because it's algorithms tricking us into forcing certain agendas and ideals upon us
some of us hate youtube because the hypocrisy around how they treat content creator differently yet claiming they are all under the same "rules"

the list goes on but what i want to say is that we don't hate people who pay for youtube we hate those who defend the platform like it's a white knight and nothing shady happening in it

[–] ExistentialOverloadMonkey@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Google sucks and YouTube is evil.
If they were not such an explicitly and overtly shitty company, I'd pay for premium no qualms.
As it is, I wouldn't give them a dollar if the CEO would personally suck me off.

[–] fuzzyspudkiss@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago

I also have been paying for Premium the last couple years and I completely agree. I get more value out of my premium subscription than I do Netflix or Max. Plus premium supports the creators more than ads do.

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[–] Ragerist@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I get that servers, bandwidth, manpower, utilities and buildings aren't free, and with more and more people using ad blocking, all that user data they have harvested isn't worth much anymore. So I think we are going to see an increase in subscription based services, and man do I hate it.

Because You just know it's going to increase and squeeze evey last dime from their users. Because it's never enough to have their expenses covered and earn some money.. They constantly need to earn more. Just look at Netflix, declining in contents, increasing restrictions and rising price.

The way that YouTube treats their users and content creators for that matter, I'll never enter a subscription from there. Removing features, blocking people with no way of appealing and letting scammers and spammers run rampant on their platform. Yeah, no thanks.

I used to love using YouTube for music, it was great at suggesting new and exciting music. But then it was split into a separate service and they nuked the algorithm. Now I can discover music by popularity or moods, and as someone whos into EDM, hardstyle, rock, metal and heavy metal.. that's a piss poor way to find new music.

[–] duckef@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm finding this with my Spotify. The discover new music algo just feeds me the same 30 or so songs that I've listened to a million times it must be broken.

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[–] Rentlar@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yt-dlp, NewPipe, Invidious...

[–] pirate@lemmy.piracy.guide 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It'll be a very sad day when those no longer work.

[–] Brad@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The day they no longer work is the day I stop watching youtube.

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[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Curious to hear how you think YouTube should cover its costs if it's not allowed to show you ads and not allowed to charge you for usage.

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[–] vendetta@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 years ago

you could just... use VPN with russian region, you won't even get ads because YouTube does not monetize this region (sanctions duh)

or move in Russia, most ultimate solution =D

[–] Arodg25@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Greed didn't lead someone, this is a shareholder entity. Each shareholder doesn't even have to think about greed. The entity does it all for them. That's why companies can do horrible things and everyone can sleep at night. It's always the entity that did it not them. Shareholders are the root of all evil in this world today.

[–] chemotype@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nah, landlords are

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[–] LukeySixx@feddit.uk 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have paid for YouTube Premium for 5 years...forgot there were ads on YouTube🤔

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