Now they’ve also got premium lite or some crap
I installed Altserver and uYou yesterday, great experience so far (the same without ads and with sponsorblock by default, no jailbreak, iOS)
I already had adblock before the whole stupid adblock block. I support the creators I watch, can listen to videos with the screen off, and I also use YT Music, so its a good deal for me.
I can however understand anyone who doesnt want to pay for YT Premium and doesnt want to be blasted by scam ads. Ads shouldnt be this annoying.
I totally agree. I feel that the services I get for my membership fee are adequate. It is not problem for me to pay for a decent service. The day they inject ads into a paid account is the day I leave, however.
Just want to mention that if you’re affected by the anti-adblock, use µBlock Origin. It’s usually updated about as fast as the anti-adblock is.
I pay for premium because I don’t have a real PC. Heresy, I know. When I watch YouTube on my PS5 app I can’t use an adblocker. There’s solutions, sure, but I’ve gotten rid of almost every other sub service BUT YouTube prem at this point.
I guess I’m saying all of this because I feel guilty about paying for YouTube fucking premium lmao
Here’s a trick, don’t let YT know: if you close the video as soon as an ad loads, there will be no ads when you open it again.
Ehh, I have it too and I don’t mind paying. But, I’m still paying $7.99 a month since I was an early adopter of Google music, R.I.P…
This is the way.
I’ve been paying since the early GPM days and at this point, everything else is more expensive. It just makes financial sense to keep YT Premium.
To me it is the opposite.
I will never use a network device to browse the internet if it doesn’t have a proper adblocker.
Don’t feel guilthy though
Don’t feel guilty. If it works for you, that’s all that matters. I’ve been a Premium customer for a few years now just because I think the provided services and lack of ads are worth it. Nothing wrong with paying for services you enjoy.
I wouldn’t feel guilty. A lot of the content creators make some really great stuff that takes a lot of their own time and resources, why shouldn’t they get paid for that?
Are companies like Google and Conde Nast trying to criminalize ad blocking and apps like NewPipe yet?
Yes
always
YouTube had me as a paying subscriber until they fucked it all up. Great job assholes.
They technically already get 300 Dollars a year out of you without you ever subscribing so who’s laughing now?
Ublock origin to skip ads that pay creators 0.000001 cents per view, spotify for $9.99 a month for all of the music/podcasts you can listen to on the go, and donate to patreon for your favorite creators. If you have 5 creators you truly love and want to support, $1 a month is generally the entry level patreon tier. And it’s more money for your creator than they would have earned if you watched their videos hundreds of times.
That’s $15 per month to get everything that youtube premium offers for $25 a month, plus you don’t make Google richer in the process.
I’m not going to pay for Spotify either. Music should be a federated platform where you can purchase music directly from the artist and not pay massive corporations like Spotify, Google, or Apple for the luxury of doing nothing.
I mean if GPM or Spotify weren’t garbage I’d pay a reasonable amount a month for one, supporting the artists is nice and all but it’s not why I don’t pay for these services.
I fucking hate Spotify. I forgot why until I tried it again recently. I typed in a specific song, and it showed the song picture and everything … but then started playing a completely different song instead! If I wanted to play a different song, i would have typed that one instead!
Google maps decided to take me to Sheetz instead of Wawa, tbf there wasn’t a Wawa nearby but it just started navigating instead of telling me that, I would accuse them of having a preference but it’s the reverse in the play store where if you search Sheetz the Wawa app comes up first as sponsored.
It only does that if you’re not paying for it. Free users don’t have the ability to play whatever they want. It’s basically a radio if you’re not paying for it.
Thank you, that makes a lot more sense!
It costs $14 a month to get youtube premium for an individual and $23 a month for 6 people with a family that is like $4 a month per person
I stopped subbing after they raised the prices otherwise I would’ve continued
I would have been a begrudging subscriber if they hadn’t removed the dislike count and forced ads on unmonetized creators and took all the money from those ads. But because they did that, I got a subscription to Nebula instead.
Do you realise how ridiculously expensive it is for Google to store all these videos? To be honest I’m surprised how long they’ve survived, without charging.
You essentially get unlimited free video storage using YouTube, yes I suspect 90% of it is crap. But it’s amazing that Google still offer that. Running YouTube must be significantly more expensive than any other similar services like Netflix, YouTube, Instagram etc.
Google can cry me a fucking river over their costs.
Well, guess what. Poor Google knew and should’ve thought about that before buying YouTube. Nobody forced them to.
Revanced and smarttube
Fuck corporate internet, give me 2004 YouTube back
2004 Youtube? You mean embedded Quicktime 7 that loads at dial up speeds?
Mmmm…pixelation.
Youtube didn’t exist back then…
Best deal is YT premium family, I have 5 or 6 people on it with no commercials on YT and YT music which is great for our use cases as well. Yes it’s like $25 a month, but everyone that uses it loves it!
I consume a lot of YT, for “How it’s made” and project shows there really isn’t anything remotely comparable. No ads and FF through sponsored content is awesome.
I agree and have the same. It’s worth it with the family plan.
Best deal is running an invidious server.
Literally entire youtube, free without ads, no account to do tracking, easy download button and best of all straightforward home page that can list uploads from subscriptions.
Honestly if this suits your family keep it. But youtube exploiting its creators for admoney cannot be the best deal.
I believe someone else mentioned 55% of premium revenue goes to creators. That is a fairly significant share, plus the cost of hosting content and maintaining the appliances etc etc. It seems reasonable to me for less than $5 per person per month.
Its more then i thought but it gets split between creators you watch and its pretty vague on how that is devided, per view, based on time watched? With so many crap suggested and auto play id love to see some stats, many creators i enjoy switched to unmonitized and patriot support long before premium was a thing.
I get that hosting content costs money but that doesn’t stop systems like torrentio to provide entirely free streams of literally any show in multiple variations of 4k resolution.
It doesn’t have to be this way and the creators deserve much more.
But i too have a family, i understand the value in plug an play convenience, i can definitely see how its worth it you. If it works, and is affordable don’t change it.
But for everyone else who may be tempted, there are great alternatives to watch and support alternatives without paying the techdragons toll.
If you have a favorite creator, donate to their patreon. Patreon takes far less of a cut and you get perks.
Content creators get 55% of the value of YouTube Premium. That’s one of the major reasons I got it. I only wish it could remove sponsored fragments (fuck these) from videos, but I use SponsorBlock for that.
Any reason you’re not using Ublock?
Ublock Origin
Ublock is a totall unrelated extension.
Or revanced on mobile
Libretube
Or Invidious instances
or smarttube on android tv
