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pete_the_cat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I’ve had YouTube Premium since the days when it was called YouTube Red, so like a decade. I’ve grown used to not seeing any ads from Google and anytime I watch a video not using my account it’s torture.

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timewarp@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Same here. FreeTube for desktop and NewPipe are all you need though if you don’t want to pay and/or have access to music.

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- Wildly_Utilize@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Tubular is newpipe + sponsorblock BTW
  
  I use pipepipe but it’s less stable
  
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  - timewarp@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I haven’t tried that yet. I think Libretube also does SponsorBlock too & have seen it on F-Droid.
    
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    Wildly_Utilize@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Ya I think you’re right.
    
    I use pipepipe because it let’s you change the ugly red YouTube banner to black (enable eye protection)
    
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- towerful@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  As a recent YT premium-tryer, it’s amazing how many ads they put in that aren’t obviously adverts.
  Not sure I’ll keep YT premium beyond the free trial, until I find more decent content producers. Even then, it’s skipping their paid promotions.
  So it’s like paying for a streaming platform to not get ads… But still getting ads
  
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  - timewarp@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I agree… however, that is an issue with the content creators relying on using content promotions. I have noticed when skipping ahead in videos that it usually indicates in the progress bar where the promotion ends. If the content producers utilized other ways to contribute and I liked them enough, then I’d do that. YouTube now has a subscriber only feature that should help with this. There are also extensions that are supposed to block sponsors too. I don’t think YouTube has implemented any functions to make blocking sponsored ads more difficult, especially for paying users… who knows though.
    
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CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
You‘re part of the problem then. It only got so shitty in the first place so they could trap people in the Premium subscription that will get increasingly more expensive and less useful.

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