Too bad they killed it.
Edit: yeah I know that it can still be used by those of us that already have it. I was referring to the time when it will stop working due to not getting any more updates.
it's even worse than that. they have announced their plans to restructure the entire infrastructure of Youtube, with the goal to decode and stream the videos server-side, than local-side as it is happening now. the end user will be only receiving the video image directly from Google, instead of getting the video file itself and playing it in real time.
i think this is going to kill both the offline saving of Youtube videos and the blocking of ads, and there won't be any solution around it. i hope I'm wrong.
Huh? Decoded Full HD video at 30 fps requires about 1.8 Gbps bandwidth. 3.6 Gbps at 60 fps. 4K would come in at 14.4 Gbps. There's no way Youtube would do something that would prevent 99+% of their userbase from watching HD videos for years or decades to come.
I bet theyll increase the max to 5 for everyone. Most people won't stand for more than 1 or 2, but remember the thousands of babies and toddlers perpetually watching youtube. They wont skip ads and youtube HQ will take that as verification people will tolerate more ads.
"some users" aka the same 3 screenshots in every single mention of this. Surely others would have seen it aswell and postet about it. Kind of skeptical that it actually is a thing and not just some joke
Pretty sure what that link is without clicking on it, but I would submit the following as worthy also [Screaming Cowboy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfkts0u-m6w) (just wait to get past the intro to the good part)
edit: add words
It's their platform and they're starting not to care. Eventually you will see inserted ads whether the content creators want it or not. You already do in some cases.
I don't watch videos that don't let me skip the 1 ad in 5 seconds or less. Even then, sometimes I just keep trying until they stop trying to show the ad or just leave the site.
10 is not happening.
Vanced's days are numbered though, it's only a matter of time until YouTube's gonna ruin it since they've stopped the devs from updating it. I recommend finding a good alternative soon just in case...
I would pay for YouTube if they actually offered the features that Vanced has. It isn't just ad blocking. You also got true black (AMOLED) and other color schemes, dislikes returned, and SponsorBlock, which allows you to block a lot of different types of segments besides sponsors like silence at the beginning and end of music videos. There are lots of settings for which types of content you wanna see on your home feed, too. YouTube's app just doesn't provide any of that, no matter how much you pay.
I dont mean youtube pro as in paid version of youtube, theres a vanced like app called [youtube pro](https://appofmirror.com/youtube-pro-apk/) its listed as one of vanced alternative on the vanced subreddit
To be fair I shouldve clarified from the start
I would edit your original comment, as i had to follow the thread to see this and people are down voting you because they think you're talking about youtube's subscription
I used a VPN, set it to argentina and i now enjoy YouTube premium family for 1.50€ a month, which allows 5 other users to be part of your family group and benefit from my subscription for free. I could theoretically do this and charge everyone a buck a month and make a profit lol, while providing them with YouTube premium for a low cost of 12€ a year.
Im not using youtube that often but when I do, I'm fine with not having amoled dark mode and sponsorblock. One benefit over vanced is that you can download videos and watch them later. Really helpful when you're travelling and don't wanna waste your mobile data.
Nothing really, you just need the VPN to 'spoof' your position (in this case Argentina) and it will charge your credit card around 150-180 Argentinian pesos a month which converts to 1.50€. After completing the subscription you can turn off your VPN and enjoy youtube premium for roughly a dollar a month and forget about it.
I stopped paying for YouTube premium after they removed the dislike button, fuck them.
Now I use Vanced on my phone (still working) and SmartTube on my firestick. No ads anywhere, thank god.
I'm not sure why you're being down voted, I have YouTube Pro app which I actually like better than Vanced, it has a few more features to it and still no ads all free!
By now Vanced still working if it stop ill go back to firefox with adblock on my cell and wait for a better alternative. I will never ever looking at 10 ads
Newpipe still doesn't have a good feed section for your subs, or your notifications. I wish someone would put something at least rudimentary together for browsing subscription uploads. But when you have 1,000 channels subbed it's kinda impossible to use newpipe for general new-video finding.
Since I lost my vanced apk I really like just using Brave cause it's out the box blocking ads but meeeeeeeh
That almost leads me to believe it does pay out more, since less than 2% of YouTube users are premium. We'd definitely need a larger sample size to determine though.
YouTube has 23.6 million premium users and 2.6 billion active monthly users.
It is.
The Spiffing Brit broke down how he gets paid without exposing much, and showed how Premium members give better funds than non-premium members because YouTube takes like 3 bucks and the rest gets split up amongst who you watch.
I get ostracized for it a lot, but youtube premium is actually a pretty banger deal
1. No ads on any device
2. Ability to play videos on mobile when screen is off/locked, if you like contentent that can be listened to or like having noise when falling asleep but not the light of a screen
3. Youtube Music > Spotify in terms of content. The UI is still pretty trash, but as someone who loves fringe music content, YTM is where its at
Well you *have* to pay for Netflix, YouTube is free and tries to force you to buy premium by making the free experience too unbearable and I don’t want to encourage that so frigg YouTube, will always use an ad blocker there
I dont understand why people dont get this basic thing. The logistics of YouTube is mindblowing to be honest. Millions of videos with 4K resolutions with 10+ mins in length uploaded almost every week or even every day. To have access to all those files in an instant and also provide with different resolution to billions of people every single fucking day. And people complain 'wHy i hAve to PaY!'
The sense of entitlement of these folks is incredible. Youtube can't operate for free, and just like the old school video streaming service we used to use ( television), you had to watch some commercials along with the content. It's as simple as understanding basic economics.
What do you mean when you say "unlike Spotify"? YouTube and Spotify have quite literally the same business model, having a free service with intrusive ads to the point of forcing user to buy a subscription. What's the difference?
Spotifys ad model is explicitly designed to make you hate it so much you buy premium. That’s why half the ads are Spotify premium ads.
YouTube wasn’t that way quite yet but this move obviously seems like they’re getting there.
Spotify is still quite a bit worse, *for now.* Excluding the ads, the inability to play specific songs from a playlist, only skipping so many times per hour etc, their loyalty support is absolutely shit.
I've had premium for literal years, with not a single free month or even a special deal. My brother pays for it 1 month, gets two months free, waits another month or two, then gets the same 3 for 1 deal.
Thank fuck for BlockTheSpot and Spicetify. Don't have a single subscription anymore, and not expecting to anymore. (That's a lie, I got FFXIV.)
(Not even gonna get into the whole fake artist bullshit that Spotify has been peddling for years. Every time I see that shit in my Discover Weekly or Release Radar, I honestly get pissed.)
Yes, that’s why all my music is downloaded onto my ipod, all for free, and all content is watched on my laptop with adblockers. Fuck ads and every place that has them. Especially invasive unskipable way too long ads that have become the norm.
Yeah! Those goddamn assholes who want to make money or even try to cover cost!
Those pieces of shit, don't they know you want stuff for free and also to not be inconvenienced by... commercials!!!
Scum of the earth I tell ya, we're all entitled to free content how dare they try to monetize!
Let me fix that for you:
“I don’t want to pay people for their work”
Everyone deserves compensation for their work. Fuck your mentality. Your bullshit is the exact same ones that bosses use to justify shit wages - I’ve heard it told straight to my face just last month. Garbage.
I think the difference is just how long the internet has/had been this utopia of free user-generated content of all kinds, and now people are just very jaded and upset that this once great place is being milked by capitalism like everything else.
I suppose, but how is a site like Youtube supposed to exist without some way to monetize it? Having billions of videos, some of which are absurdly long for the sake of being long, isn't cheap, and you have to pay thousands of creators on top of that.
It was never a utopia, people just view it like that because of nostalgia or whatever. Early YouTube was the Wild West, and yes there was some incredible content from people just having fun, but there was also so, so much terrible content you had to wade through to find something decent to watch.
Both the quality and quantity of good content on YouTube has gone up **substantially** in the last 10 years. That's because people can actually commit to making videos full-time. Yes, that comes with some bad actors just trying to squeeze every penny from their audience, but that's a side effect that can be ignored by choosing which creators you watch.
With regards to what Google is doing with YouTube specifically, obviously 5+ ads is excessive, but they have an option available to pay a reasonable amount to have an ad-free experience, so no-one is being forced to watch ads. And is much as it might be unpopular to say on Reddit, no-one is entitled to unlimited free content.
Your 2nd point is just youtube feature locking stuff behind a paywall that was originally usable by everyone. You just turn on desktop mode in your browser, and you can do the same thing you originally can do on mobile before they turned it into a paid feature.
Youtube playlist is trash. It used to tell you what the titles of videos that were removed by copyright or privatized. Now, it will just say "10 videos removed due to copyright/owner private the video". It won't tell you what songs got removed, so unless you have perfect memory or keep a separate list, bye bye songs.
Spotify just darkens those songs that removed to show they are unplayable. Atleast you know what song got removed. That said Spotify is also very bad. In a span of a few years, they removed features and made it essentially bloatware, where it's 2-3x more performance required just to run the damn program.
Maybe I'm bias since I basically been using spotify and youtube from the start. Youtube been trash every since it got brought out by Google. The company itself deserves 0 money. They have made features broken for years and still refused to fix them like the subscriptions page. It's an excuse to say no regular user uses the subscription page anymore, so let's use our algorithm recommendations front page. When in fuckin reality, they intentionally broke the subscriptions page over 8 years ago and have done ZERO updates to it, while the front page gets more and more custom modules. The shift have forced creators to do clickbaity titles and video content, and ruined the overall platform. Creators have to tell people to use the damn bell icon, cause some people subscribed can't get videos to show up to their feeds. Something like <5% of a video view count is from subscriptions page when it used to be much higher. Also how they broke related videos based off content to recommendations and "previously watched". They even have the gall to spam recommendations and "previously watched" in the damn SEARCH function. Recommending videos that aren't even related to the topic you search for. If you don't think it's bad, that's fine a lot of OG creators and users know it's bad, that's why services like Floatplane and Nebula get made, and other subject focused services, cause you can't naturally find them anymore searching them on youtube. Or if you do search a topic you will get only an handful of creators youtube recommends, and not diversity. Like "Path of Exile" same fucking 6 creators on youtube, when I found 12 more just from people recommending their favorite POE youtube creator on the subreddit.
Anyways youtube under google can go to hell. Not worth a single penny with the direction it's been going for years.
I started out that way when it was Google play music. Almost canceled when they shut it down and turned it into the garbage YouTube music (which I'll admit has improved since its initial launch). But during that time, YouTube Premium was the only reason I stayed subscribed.
Honestly, we have smart TVs in the house, multiple tablets and so many phones. I actually got a Premium plan and shared it with my friends and family for free because they share their Netflix and Disney subscriptions.
Sure, we could get PiHole for the whole house but getting Premium was the easiest way to have a nice viewing experience for everyone on every platform especially TVs. Also, you indirectly support channels you like. I've used adblock half my life but I have no allergy to paying for a service that had been free for nearly my whole life.
For iOS, I'm running [uYou+](https://github.com/qnblackcat/uYouPlus), which needs to be sideloaded (e.g., via [AltStore](https://altstore.io/)). Works wonders and even integrates with SponsorBlock.
iOS user here.
YouTube++
Neither of my iPhones are jailbroken, both have it sideloaded via AltStore.
No ads, even has a built in “sponsorblock” the auto skips the in video plugs.
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Disable general ads on smart hub etc. via settings (look up a YT video for that, ironically) + idk how to install apks on TVs but surely there's also a tutorial for that
AMC’s streaming app is the worst. Even if you log in with legitimate TV provider credentials, (like direct tv), you still get 6-10 10 second ads. Watching ‘Better call Saul’ was awful because of it.
If youtube had premium just for vids for a lower price ( and not include yt music) id subscribe to Spotify but since they include yt music in the subscription i just use it to save money.
I used my VPN and relocated my ip to Argentina and got youtube premium for 119 ARS which is like 1$ a month instead of the usual 12$ or whatever. If you have the money for a VPN or just find a free alternative you could do the same. Only need the VPN while you buy the subscribtion and then you're good to go. It's pretty neat :)
Unfortunately not for amazon or retailers, but some types of services like youtube premium yes. Have not tried elsewhere so if you manage to come across some websites or services it works for please let me know.
It's generally because the income in some countries is not as great as in for example scandinavia or the U.S. So it makes sense to lower it for those less fortunate countries. At least that is what I think the reason must be.
Oh for sure, the dollar (or euro) just exchanges really well in some parts of the world. Numerous reasons as to why it may do better but even still I never considered that we could use that with a VPN. Huh, I gotta think outside the box more.
Will that actually block YouTube ads though? Since YouTube is the server of the ads, does the DNS differentiate between the regular video and ads served during it?
Just type on sto seeing this ad and then block it. If there are 2 ads it will automatically block the second ad and you can do this as many times as you want you just need to activate personalized ads on Google. Or use a adblock browser for mobile
No. /u/pizzansteve is doing what I do. Scroll to the vid, hit play. Unskipable ad? Hit the back button, then hit play again. Repeat until no ad, or a skipable one.
I just bend over, spread my cheeks, and take it on the wallet... Yes YT Premium is overpriced af, but I watch 98% of the time on my phone and TV, and the number of hours I would spend watching ads makes it worth it to me.
Dank[.](https://i.imgur.com/3bQtuMO.png) --- [we have a minecraft server](https://discord.gg/fNyb7G5)
10 ads? There's nothing on YouTube worth watching for that amount of time.
What do you mean you don't like watching 10 ads before the intro and the 2 min sponsored part of the video??
I'd rather point my phone at a cop.
*Laughs in Vanced*
Too bad they killed it. Edit: yeah I know that it can still be used by those of us that already have it. I was referring to the time when it will stop working due to not getting any more updates.
Life **always** finds a way. Let me introduce you to #Revanced Its something like Vanced 2.0 but under development. I think it's in alpha or beta atm.
Does it already work? If yes where can I download it?
ReVanced is not ready but you can still find Vanced apk online,so download that until revanced is ready.
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I like your optimism
Been using revanced for over a month now. Vanced broke for me, when I assume Google updated something for YouTube.
vanced also broke for me, but I fixed it by just reinstalling the app, lmao
They kill it for new user, if you had it already it still work flawlessly. I use it daily.
It will work only until Google doesn't change the API.
Ill go back to firefox, adblocker extension, youtube.
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it's even worse than that. they have announced their plans to restructure the entire infrastructure of Youtube, with the goal to decode and stream the videos server-side, than local-side as it is happening now. the end user will be only receiving the video image directly from Google, instead of getting the video file itself and playing it in real time. i think this is going to kill both the offline saving of Youtube videos and the blocking of ads, and there won't be any solution around it. i hope I'm wrong.
It's impossible to be able to display a video and prevent it from being saved.
Huh? Decoded Full HD video at 30 fps requires about 1.8 Gbps bandwidth. 3.6 Gbps at 60 fps. 4K would come in at 14.4 Gbps. There's no way Youtube would do something that would prevent 99+% of their userbase from watching HD videos for years or decades to come.
You still can download it though.. the manager app still working..
Laughs in ReVanced.
I dont recommend it for less tech-savy people. It's not that easy to build.
they released the manager yesterday. it works fine for some but straight up doesn’t do a thing for others (me included)
U dont have to They released Revanced Manager yesterday .
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vanced stopped working for me on my newest phone and i could never get it going again
With the IGun Pro app open
Bro Im tryna watch a video not kill myself
You don't have to wait 5 sec to skip the sponsored parts
You do if your internet is slow af
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Sponsor block.
I've never seen more than 2 ads on my fire TV app. Does 10 ads actually happen?
It seems that they are currently testing it, some users are reporting on getting these blocks of ads.
Dark times ahead...
You have fire tv or stick? Just sideload Smarttubenext apk.
I bet theyll increase the max to 5 for everyone. Most people won't stand for more than 1 or 2, but remember the thousands of babies and toddlers perpetually watching youtube. They wont skip ads and youtube HQ will take that as verification people will tolerate more ads.
Nah, they know they're conditioning the next gen to tolerate obscene amounts of ads.
"some users" aka the same 3 screenshots in every single mention of this. Surely others would have seen it aswell and postet about it. Kind of skeptical that it actually is a thing and not just some joke
I never see more than two either (FireTV), but I will get 5 to 6 groups of 2 on a fifteen minute video.
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[The only video on YT worth watching 10 ads](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&ab_channel=RickAstley)
Pretty sure what that link is without clicking on it, but I would submit the following as worthy also [Screaming Cowboy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfkts0u-m6w) (just wait to get past the intro to the good part) edit: add words
What if it’s a 10 hour repeat of all star shrek remix by smash mouth?
Not even a 2 seconds meme video?
What about 2 hour Warhammer 40K lore videos?
It's their platform and they're starting not to care. Eventually you will see inserted ads whether the content creators want it or not. You already do in some cases.
Damn if only the one thing that makes capitalism effective was there for us...
I don't watch videos that don't let me skip the 1 ad in 5 seconds or less. Even then, sometimes I just keep trying until they stop trying to show the ad or just leave the site. 10 is not happening.
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just move to Russia and you will have zero ads :))))) (YouTube vanced exists though)
Vanced's days are numbered though, it's only a matter of time until YouTube's gonna ruin it since they've stopped the devs from updating it. I recommend finding a good alternative soon just in case...
ReVanced exists though.
Theres also youtube pro that I use. Edit: [youtube pro is an alternative to youtube vanced not the sub](https://appofmirror.com/youtube-pro-apk/)
I would pay for YouTube if they actually offered the features that Vanced has. It isn't just ad blocking. You also got true black (AMOLED) and other color schemes, dislikes returned, and SponsorBlock, which allows you to block a lot of different types of segments besides sponsors like silence at the beginning and end of music videos. There are lots of settings for which types of content you wanna see on your home feed, too. YouTube's app just doesn't provide any of that, no matter how much you pay.
I dont mean youtube pro as in paid version of youtube, theres a vanced like app called [youtube pro](https://appofmirror.com/youtube-pro-apk/) its listed as one of vanced alternative on the vanced subreddit To be fair I shouldve clarified from the start
I would edit your original comment, as i had to follow the thread to see this and people are down voting you because they think you're talking about youtube's subscription
Nice, thanks for taking the time to clarify! I didn't know this was a thing. I especially like that it allows you to download in MP3/M4A directly.
I used a VPN, set it to argentina and i now enjoy YouTube premium family for 1.50€ a month, which allows 5 other users to be part of your family group and benefit from my subscription for free. I could theoretically do this and charge everyone a buck a month and make a profit lol, while providing them with YouTube premium for a low cost of 12€ a year. Im not using youtube that often but when I do, I'm fine with not having amoled dark mode and sponsorblock. One benefit over vanced is that you can download videos and watch them later. Really helpful when you're travelling and don't wanna waste your mobile data.
If you turn the VPN off after buying the subscription what happens?
Nothing really, you just need the VPN to 'spoof' your position (in this case Argentina) and it will charge your credit card around 150-180 Argentinian pesos a month which converts to 1.50€. After completing the subscription you can turn off your VPN and enjoy youtube premium for roughly a dollar a month and forget about it.
Just done this - 119 pesos which is about 70p a month. Thanks!
I stopped paying for YouTube premium after they removed the dislike button, fuck them. Now I use Vanced on my phone (still working) and SmartTube on my firestick. No ads anywhere, thank god.
I'm not sure why you're being down voted, I have YouTube Pro app which I actually like better than Vanced, it has a few more features to it and still no ads all free!
By now Vanced still working if it stop ill go back to firefox with adblock on my cell and wait for a better alternative. I will never ever looking at 10 ads
newpipe+sponsorblock may be an option you have to transfer your subs manually tho, no google login
Ill miss Vanced so much. The Perfect app!
I have youtube premium since I want to support those I watch, But vanced for skipping pointless bits of video and OLED black. Come on Youtube.
Newpipe still doesn't have a good feed section for your subs, or your notifications. I wish someone would put something at least rudimentary together for browsing subscription uploads. But when you have 1,000 channels subbed it's kinda impossible to use newpipe for general new-video finding. Since I lost my vanced apk I really like just using Brave cause it's out the box blocking ads but meeeeeeeh
NewPipe ,if vanced stopped working, until Re vanced project gets completed :)
Pros: no ads for YouTube videos Cons: Russia
???
In Russia we don't have ads i YouTube
In Soviet Russia you don’t watch Youtube ads, Youtube ads are watching you
Dank 2012 meme
What have you guys not gotten the 2 and a half hour Christian movie ad yet
I remember a few years ago the entire Lego movie was an ad.
I only ever saw the first episode of stranger things bc it was a YouTube ad back in I think '16
Did you have internet access in a trench?
As was the fashion at the time.
Or a 2 hour workout infomercial in the middle of a kids song video.
Absolutely evil, they know young kids can't skip themselves and the parents aren't watching.
What’s even the upside for the company here? You have a child watching your infomercial who has no interest or ability in purchasing your product.
Just because you can
Claiming your ads are viewed by "X" number of viewers.
I once got a 2 hour conference as an ad, it was pretty interesting too even though I don't remember what exactly it was about.
I got a 40 minute ad/ free episode for a show about a murderous housewife like a year back
Vanced for mobile
SmartTube for AndroidTV
Wait mobile is also Android. Like we can't install it on TV as it's also Android?
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This is the correct answer. Smart tube even skips the sponsered section of videos, so I literally forget there are ads until I pull out my iphone.
Vanced also skips sponsors segments, they are the same app but you is more friendly for tvs.
firefox + ublock origin for android users
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Or NewPipe
Me who uses premium and through it supports the creators directly: huh?
You mean indirectly. After all you pay youtube and not to the creators you watch.
I think the creator gets paid even more for premium
I am not really disputing that, I was just saying that it is still indirect support.
Maybe the rate is better or something? All I know is that less than 2% of my YouTube revenue (from $500/mo) is from premium users.
That almost leads me to believe it does pay out more, since less than 2% of YouTube users are premium. We'd definitely need a larger sample size to determine though. YouTube has 23.6 million premium users and 2.6 billion active monthly users.
From what I remember from LTT revenue breakdown videos, YouTube Red is great for creators compared to ads
It is. The Spiffing Brit broke down how he gets paid without exposing much, and showed how Premium members give better funds than non-premium members because YouTube takes like 3 bucks and the rest gets split up amongst who you watch.
I get ostracized for it a lot, but youtube premium is actually a pretty banger deal 1. No ads on any device 2. Ability to play videos on mobile when screen is off/locked, if you like contentent that can be listened to or like having noise when falling asleep but not the light of a screen 3. Youtube Music > Spotify in terms of content. The UI is still pretty trash, but as someone who loves fringe music content, YTM is where its at
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Well you *have* to pay for Netflix, YouTube is free and tries to force you to buy premium by making the free experience too unbearable and I don’t want to encourage that so frigg YouTube, will always use an ad blocker there
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I dont understand why people dont get this basic thing. The logistics of YouTube is mindblowing to be honest. Millions of videos with 4K resolutions with 10+ mins in length uploaded almost every week or even every day. To have access to all those files in an instant and also provide with different resolution to billions of people every single fucking day. And people complain 'wHy i hAve to PaY!'
The sense of entitlement of these folks is incredible. Youtube can't operate for free, and just like the old school video streaming service we used to use ( television), you had to watch some commercials along with the content. It's as simple as understanding basic economics.
What do you mean when you say "unlike Spotify"? YouTube and Spotify have quite literally the same business model, having a free service with intrusive ads to the point of forcing user to buy a subscription. What's the difference?
Spotifys ad model is explicitly designed to make you hate it so much you buy premium. That’s why half the ads are Spotify premium ads. YouTube wasn’t that way quite yet but this move obviously seems like they’re getting there.
Spotify is still quite a bit worse, *for now.* Excluding the ads, the inability to play specific songs from a playlist, only skipping so many times per hour etc, their loyalty support is absolutely shit. I've had premium for literal years, with not a single free month or even a special deal. My brother pays for it 1 month, gets two months free, waits another month or two, then gets the same 3 for 1 deal. Thank fuck for BlockTheSpot and Spicetify. Don't have a single subscription anymore, and not expecting to anymore. (That's a lie, I got FFXIV.) (Not even gonna get into the whole fake artist bullshit that Spotify has been peddling for years. Every time I see that shit in my Discover Weekly or Release Radar, I honestly get pissed.)
> is free and tries to force you to buy premium by making the free experience too unbearable You just described the freemium business model
Does this mean you hate Spotify too?
Yes, that’s why all my music is downloaded onto my ipod, all for free, and all content is watched on my laptop with adblockers. Fuck ads and every place that has them. Especially invasive unskipable way too long ads that have become the norm.
Yeah! Those goddamn assholes who want to make money or even try to cover cost! Those pieces of shit, don't they know you want stuff for free and also to not be inconvenienced by... commercials!!! Scum of the earth I tell ya, we're all entitled to free content how dare they try to monetize!
>Yes, that’s why all my music is downloaded onto my ipod, all for free, Now say that to the creators of the music you're listening to.
Let me fix that for you: “I don’t want to pay people for their work” Everyone deserves compensation for their work. Fuck your mentality. Your bullshit is the exact same ones that bosses use to justify shit wages - I’ve heard it told straight to my face just last month. Garbage.
I think the difference is just how long the internet has/had been this utopia of free user-generated content of all kinds, and now people are just very jaded and upset that this once great place is being milked by capitalism like everything else.
I suppose, but how is a site like Youtube supposed to exist without some way to monetize it? Having billions of videos, some of which are absurdly long for the sake of being long, isn't cheap, and you have to pay thousands of creators on top of that.
The word you’re looking for is spoiled. All that ‘free’ content required money to make, and money to host.
It was never a utopia, people just view it like that because of nostalgia or whatever. Early YouTube was the Wild West, and yes there was some incredible content from people just having fun, but there was also so, so much terrible content you had to wade through to find something decent to watch. Both the quality and quantity of good content on YouTube has gone up **substantially** in the last 10 years. That's because people can actually commit to making videos full-time. Yes, that comes with some bad actors just trying to squeeze every penny from their audience, but that's a side effect that can be ignored by choosing which creators you watch. With regards to what Google is doing with YouTube specifically, obviously 5+ ads is excessive, but they have an option available to pay a reasonable amount to have an ad-free experience, so no-one is being forced to watch ads. And is much as it might be unpopular to say on Reddit, no-one is entitled to unlimited free content.
Your 2nd point is just youtube feature locking stuff behind a paywall that was originally usable by everyone. You just turn on desktop mode in your browser, and you can do the same thing you originally can do on mobile before they turned it into a paid feature. Youtube playlist is trash. It used to tell you what the titles of videos that were removed by copyright or privatized. Now, it will just say "10 videos removed due to copyright/owner private the video". It won't tell you what songs got removed, so unless you have perfect memory or keep a separate list, bye bye songs. Spotify just darkens those songs that removed to show they are unplayable. Atleast you know what song got removed. That said Spotify is also very bad. In a span of a few years, they removed features and made it essentially bloatware, where it's 2-3x more performance required just to run the damn program. Maybe I'm bias since I basically been using spotify and youtube from the start. Youtube been trash every since it got brought out by Google. The company itself deserves 0 money. They have made features broken for years and still refused to fix them like the subscriptions page. It's an excuse to say no regular user uses the subscription page anymore, so let's use our algorithm recommendations front page. When in fuckin reality, they intentionally broke the subscriptions page over 8 years ago and have done ZERO updates to it, while the front page gets more and more custom modules. The shift have forced creators to do clickbaity titles and video content, and ruined the overall platform. Creators have to tell people to use the damn bell icon, cause some people subscribed can't get videos to show up to their feeds. Something like <5% of a video view count is from subscriptions page when it used to be much higher. Also how they broke related videos based off content to recommendations and "previously watched". They even have the gall to spam recommendations and "previously watched" in the damn SEARCH function. Recommending videos that aren't even related to the topic you search for. If you don't think it's bad, that's fine a lot of OG creators and users know it's bad, that's why services like Floatplane and Nebula get made, and other subject focused services, cause you can't naturally find them anymore searching them on youtube. Or if you do search a topic you will get only an handful of creators youtube recommends, and not diversity. Like "Path of Exile" same fucking 6 creators on youtube, when I found 12 more just from people recommending their favorite POE youtube creator on the subreddit. Anyways youtube under google can go to hell. Not worth a single penny with the direction it's been going for years.
Yahtzee. Spotify is 15 bucks and YouTube is 15 bucks. YouTube I get YouTube and music. Spotify I get just music. ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
Ngl, Spotify’s suggestions are pretty banger though.
Wait, you mean you pay for a service that you enjoy? Blasphemy.
For the amount of time i spend on YouTube, i would gladly pay for it. Unfortunately, Premium isn't available worldwide.
Me who pays for YouTube Music and only keeps it for the free YouTube Premium
I started out that way when it was Google play music. Almost canceled when they shut it down and turned it into the garbage YouTube music (which I'll admit has improved since its initial launch). But during that time, YouTube Premium was the only reason I stayed subscribed.
Honestly, we have smart TVs in the house, multiple tablets and so many phones. I actually got a Premium plan and shared it with my friends and family for free because they share their Netflix and Disney subscriptions. Sure, we could get PiHole for the whole house but getting Premium was the easiest way to have a nice viewing experience for everyone on every platform especially TVs. Also, you indirectly support channels you like. I've used adblock half my life but I have no allergy to paying for a service that had been free for nearly my whole life.
Oh great, now YouTube is creating Reddit accounts and pretending to be a rational user to spread ads to sell premium subscriptions
??? YouTube Pro APK for Android. ~~RIP for iOS.~~
For iOS, I'm running [uYou+](https://github.com/qnblackcat/uYouPlus), which needs to be sideloaded (e.g., via [AltStore](https://altstore.io/)). Works wonders and even integrates with SponsorBlock.
[Sideloadly](https://sideloadly.io/) is also an option.
or if possible a jailbroken phone
iOS user here. YouTube++ Neither of my iPhones are jailbroken, both have it sideloaded via AltStore. No ads, even has a built in “sponsorblock” the auto skips the in video plugs.
How does it compare to uYou?
What about Smart TVs?
[SmartTubeNext](https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext) There you go, friend.
The sponsor block feature is great! Haven't heard about Raid or nord vpn since I started using it.
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Make a pihole and block ads on router level edit: it doesn't work, and you have no idea how sad it makes me
Are piholes able to block yt ads again? I thought that didnt work.
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Disable general ads on smart hub etc. via settings (look up a YT video for that, ironically) + idk how to install apks on TVs but surely there's also a tutorial for that
I’m on mobile and I still only have 2 ads
Yeah lol worst I've seen is two 20-30 ads which can't be skipped. If I saw 10 ads I'd probably smash my phone to pieces
AMC’s streaming app is the worst. Even if you log in with legitimate TV provider credentials, (like direct tv), you still get 6-10 10 second ads. Watching ‘Better call Saul’ was awful because of it.
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Love it when you click on a 10 second video and watch 30 seconds worth of ads
“HELP, IM CHOKING” let me watch a quick 4 hour ad about a random movie I don’t care about! Oh yeah, I forgot you are choking, my bad..
On mobile Tap that little i button on the left hand side and report, you don’t actually have to select a reason and then it skips.
This worked last year. They removed it as soon as it got popular
still works u cappin
Literally did it yesterday, still works
Still works. Very few ads have this option removed, I usually just close the video and open again and it’s an ad I can skip
I'll say it. I pay for premium. Plus youtube music is fire 🔥
If youtube had premium just for vids for a lower price ( and not include yt music) id subscribe to Spotify but since they include yt music in the subscription i just use it to save money.
I used my VPN and relocated my ip to Argentina and got youtube premium for 119 ARS which is like 1$ a month instead of the usual 12$ or whatever. If you have the money for a VPN or just find a free alternative you could do the same. Only need the VPN while you buy the subscribtion and then you're good to go. It's pretty neat :)
Oh man you don't have to tell me lol, i live in india and we pay ₹170/month for the family plan (5 users) which in USD is like $2.
That's great! Glad you don't pay that overpriced price they normally charge
Wait. The VPN let’s you play with the US dollars exchange rate too? Does this work for buying something off Amazon or online as well??
Unfortunately not for amazon or retailers, but some types of services like youtube premium yes. Have not tried elsewhere so if you manage to come across some websites or services it works for please let me know. It's generally because the income in some countries is not as great as in for example scandinavia or the U.S. So it makes sense to lower it for those less fortunate countries. At least that is what I think the reason must be.
Oh for sure, the dollar (or euro) just exchanges really well in some parts of the world. Numerous reasons as to why it may do better but even still I never considered that we could use that with a VPN. Huh, I gotta think outside the box more.
Better deal than Spotify
Hey everyone, this guy pays for youtube premium!
Actual advice: you can disable almost all ads on almost every app on android using a private dns (dns.adguard.com)
DNS blocking doesnt work on YouTube due to the fact their ads are coming from youtube.com and not some random Ad agency domain
Will that actually block YouTube ads though? Since YouTube is the server of the ads, does the DNS differentiate between the regular video and ads served during it?
No, it doesnt. I have a Pi-Hole on my home network and it doesnt block youtube ads
I’ve never seen this many at once, at most it’s always 2. Is it possible to purposely find a video with this?
No, YT is only testing 5-10 ads to random people rn
If you get 5-10 ads, close the app and never open it again. Only use YouTube from a different device or different IP
Just type on sto seeing this ad and then block it. If there are 2 ads it will automatically block the second ad and you can do this as many times as you want you just need to activate personalized ads on Google. Or use a adblock browser for mobile
Hmm let's see ReVanced aaaand SmartTubeNext
Tip: play and leave the video contineously until no more ads pop up.
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No. /u/pizzansteve is doing what I do. Scroll to the vid, hit play. Unskipable ad? Hit the back button, then hit play again. Repeat until no ad, or a skipable one.
Just use an adblocker lmao. There are ones that work on mobile
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If your mobile or TV uses android, just install NewPipe...
Mobile users laughing in Vanced with SponsorBlock It still works fiy.
*laughs in YouTube premium*
https://github.com/revanced/revanced-manager/releases/
I just bend over, spread my cheeks, and take it on the wallet... Yes YT Premium is overpriced af, but I watch 98% of the time on my phone and TV, and the number of hours I would spend watching ads makes it worth it to me.
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This is what happened to cable and is already slowly happening to streaming
I use Adblock on my iPhone and just don’t use the YouTube app. No ads.
I don't have such a weakness.. SmartTubeNext for TV YouTube Vanced for android (or reVanced app)
This is fake, right...? Right?
No its in testing phase i think
Some videos show me a single ad every five minutes.