For desktop install and use “FreeTube”.
Alternatively for your android phone you can use “GrayJay”
Never. Pay. For. YouTube. Premium
Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers
Zacryon@feddit.de 1 year ago
There’s also the option of biting the bullet and paying for YouTube Premium.
No. Never. I’d rather stop using YT at all than giving in to coerced user-tracking.
soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
S_204@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I assume you need to be rooted for Gray Jay?
Rin@lemm.ee 1 year ago
No, it works fine for me. It’s just an apk.
Lime66@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I really hope not
ogginger43@infosec.pub 1 year ago
You don’t need root because this is its own app unlike the apps like revance which patch your existing YouTube app.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
NewPipe still works well for me on Android.
Resol@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Abandoning YouTube is seriously more difficult than abandoning other “non-fediverse” general social media platforms, since it’s got so much useful content that gets straight up ruined by the company that owns the website.
I doubt PeerTube is anything better than Vimeo, at least for now, things can improve after all.
NoRodent@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I mean, I might have considered paying for YT premium if I thought it offered some value (other than disabling ads) but I won’t sure as hell pay for anything that any company is trying to blackmail me into.
Stumblinbear@pawb.social 1 year ago
I mean you didn’t buy it before so why would you now?
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 year ago
One could argue that we’re paying for it without our consent, given the fact that Google doesn’t pay anything in taxes.
Stumblinbear@pawb.social 1 year ago
One could argue that the Flying Spaghetti Monster exists. That doesn’t make it remotely true.
Uh. Google pays a shitload in taxes. There hasn’t been a single year that they HAVEN’T paid taxes. They paid 11 billion in taxes in 2022.
ArghZombies@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But that’s the wrong way around. They don’t want you to pay, they make their money through advertising. They make far more money from advertiser’s paying to put up ads than they ever make from people paying for premium.
Same as with Facebook now bringing in an ad-free version (in the EU anyway) - they charge higher than is reasonable so that people will opt for the ad-supported free version instead.
It’s not that you are blackmailed into paying premium, it’s that you’re encouraged not to as a way of explicitly consenting to ads.
Basically, you’re damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
LufyCZ@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
lmao you’re so wrong on ads being more profitable than premium, especially on a per-user basis
According to this you can expect to make around $18/1000 views. That’s with 55% going to the creator and 45% to Google. Which means that Google makes around $14.5 per 1000 views.
Coincidentally, that’s also rougly the price of YouTube Premium. Are you telling me that you watch a thousand videos per month?
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That makes a lot of sense.
pascal@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I use it because YouTube music is included and it’s great while driving, it allows background play even with the screen off (I’m talking about mobile).
There’s something more, but nothing that a pro user cannot already do with third tools.
Zacryon@feddit.de 1 year ago
I find it funny how sometimes apps create value by taking something away which is included by default in similar products and goes without saying.
In this context: YouTube is the only app I know which is denying to work when put into background or with the screen off.
Or take some car manufacturers who start asking for a fee just to use basic functionality.