Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon

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• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  To remove ads subscribe to Youtube Premium Platinum Plutonium and select the Ad-Free! add-on (for only an additional $2.95/mo)*.

  *first month price only, increases to $5.95/mo after 30 days **

  **with annual subscription; monthly rate $7.95/mo.

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  • InputZero@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    These terms of service can only be updated by GOOGLE at anytime with or without notice. You hearby agree to this term of service and, any and all updates, without review, made by GOOGLE to the terms of service.

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    • nodiratime@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      *By enabling the VIP package in addition, we guarantee to not update the TOS more than once every second.

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  • CaptPretentious@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Oh good, we’re not up to having to provide bone marrow (yet).

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  • Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Or use stube on android tv and recanced on phones. One of the reasons I can’t go to iOS.

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    • hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I had to go iOS because of… reasons,but you can sideload modded youtube app, with sponsorblock. exactly as on android,but with many headaches like token expiry every week and other bullshit issues like google not allowing IPAs directly in github repos.

      Lame, but it can be done.

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• ChickenAndRice@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I keep noticing people in this thread recommending UBlock Origin, with others replying that they eventually got a popup to turn off their adblocker.

  This is usually followed by replies mentioning they just click X (or add a UBlock filter on the popup), and go on with watching Youtube. No problem, right?

  According to Ublock Origin’s Redd*t Post, that is just the first warning stage; eventually the presentation of their anti-adblock message becomes more intrusive until you receive the “The in-player message. Playback is stopped.”

  I should know. I get that message on any Youtube video (while logged in), and it doesn’t go away for several hours.

  That said, my workaround (extremely hacky) was to find the RSS feeds for all of my channel subscriptions, and then add them to FreshRSS. That section of my RSS feed essentially acts like a Youtube subscription page, but not tied to an actual account.

  On my computer: I watch them in a private browser Firefox profile I’ve dedicated solely to Youtube (and has all of the extensions already installed, of course).

  On Android: I watch them using NewPipe.

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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Even quicker fix: logout.

    Admittedly i’m not a huge youtube watcher, but since logging out there’s not a single damned nag when i run a marathon

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    • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      i dont log in, for the purposes of google gathering more data about you. and also i would get in the habit of commenting on videos, which i dont do anymore.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Same. I use it in a dedicated Firefox container, so if I ever get a nag, I’ll clear the cores all cookies in that container and I assume that’ll reset whatever that is.

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  • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ublock orgins on Firefox has worked for me so far on both pc and mobile. No warnings.

    I do also have umatrix on pc, but I can’t really recommend it for everyone since it requires some setup on every web page which most people would find too annoying.

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  • eronth@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Previously I had the warnings until uBlock killed them. Only one has made it through in recent times, we’ll see how things keep going.

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  • glitchdx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    if this happens to me I just won’t watch youtube anymore. It’s mostly garbage content anyway.

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  • buttnugget@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Why are you censoring the word reddit? Is that a joke?

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  • terminhell@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ubo and ff mobile: I got the warning for the first time yesterday. Closed ff completely and it went back to normal. I also run pihole too, so maybe a mix of them together has kept my account ‘safe’ still. And I’m still yt freemium. FF mobile with desktop site enabled allows for audio play back with screen off btw.

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  When options like uBlock and FreeTube no longer block ads, I’ll stop watching YouTube. They’ll never get a cent out of me.

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  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    if ublock origin stops working, you can erase your youtube cookies or wait a few hours for a ublock origin update to work around it.

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  YT is only usable with ad blockers nowadays. And then it does not make a difference if you have a subscription or not.

  I would subscribe YT if they had a reasonably priced ad free tier, but if it does not make a difference, I’ll watch it for free.

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  • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That way of thinking is a trap. They did have a more reasonably priced ad free tier but people using it only made it worse over time because the line has to go up.

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• frog_brawler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  YouTube already had too many ads, and I stopped using as a result. That was several months ago. I guess I’ll just have to stop using it even harder.

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• Cocopanda@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I still use an ad blocker. They can fuck themselves in the ass. I’ll never stop.

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• Alpha71@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’ve recently been getting warning notices on Firefox that “AdBlockers are not allowed on YouTube!” I laugh and continue on.

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  • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    i actually never got that from youtube, im using ubo, and other adblockers too.

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    • QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Never seen it

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• grandma@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I would actually pay for YT premium if it was reasonably priced and I think there are many like me. Why are they shooting themselves in the foot?

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  • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If you use yt music and watch YouTube as your main entertainment, it’s well worth it imo.

    With that said, I’ve been degoogling and this is probably the one I won’t be able to break.

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    • PixiePoop@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Same here. YT is the only Google owned service I still use. I personally don’t mind the cost, since I watch a lot and wish to support the people that make the content. I would love a proper alternative but I don’t see that happen any time soon.

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  • madcaesar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’ll never pay for until until 1. It’s reasonably priced, 2. Downvotes are returned and 3 sponsor block is integrated into the app.

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    • ClamDrinker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Can I add 4. the integrated video downloader actually downloads videos, in whatever format you would want, and with no internet connection required to watch them. This to me is still the biggest scam ‘feature’ of Youtube Premium. You can ‘’‘download’‘’ videos, but not as eg. an mp4, but as an encrypted file only playable inside the Youtube app, and only if you connected to the internet in the last couple of days can you play it.

      That’s not downloading, that’s just jacking my disk space to avoid buffering the video from Youtube’s servers. That’s not a feature, that’s me paying for Youtube’s benefit.

      I cancelled and haven’t paid for Premium in years because of it. When someone scams me out of features I paid for, I don’t reward that shit until they either stop lying in their feature list, or actually start delivering.

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    • Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Sponsor block is not going to be included as those are not controlled by YouTube. They are the Chanel’s sponsorship.

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  • TootTootComingThru@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I actually paid for it for a bit after I got a few months free with a Pixel a while ago. And it was pretty good and reasonably priced.

    Then they started removing features (no dislike bar for you lol) and raising the price and I’m never giving them a single goddamn cent or not using a block on their shit.

    I’ve since cancelled and transitioned from workspace or whatever they call it now and use Revanced, ublock origin, etc. They actually had my money and they fucked it. Never again. Get fucked, Google and the shit huffing execs in charge of it.

    It’s never enough for these people. They want all of your money and they won’t stop until they have it. Fucking blood suckers.

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  • redwattlebird@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Because of the desire for infinite growth. The line must go up 💹

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  • mkhopper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Why? Greed.
    And they’re not even shy about it.

    I made this comment some time ago on another thread about YouTube ads.
    With the sheer number of concurrent users, worldwide, 24/7, YouTube could show one ad every three or four videos, and still make a mind boggling amount of money.
    But if some money is good, more must be better, right?

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Same. They should have a lower tier where your first N hours of watch time have no ads. I don’t watch a ton, so that would probably convince me to pay.

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• ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I feel like youtube is losing sight of why users are paying for the service then.

  To me, personally, youtube is useful enough that I will keep paying to remove ads entirely (in combination with ublock). That being said, there will come a time when the value proposition is no longer balanced. Then I will stop paying, and probably stop using it as well.

  But as always with Google, I question whether their motive is to kill another service. They’re very competent at that specific thing.

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  • Jimmycakes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They just want users who are paying full freight as they know the ad business is in step decline.

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    • pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Is it in decline? I mean, I want to believe it, but I haven’t seen any hard data on that.

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• seathru@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  No; I don’t think there will be.

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• viking@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Youtube has ads? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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• boughtmysoul@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Wait. I pay for YouTube with my time, the most important resource I have access to. There’s a level where you pay money and STILL SEE ADS?

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  • moopet@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I pay money to ride on the bus and still see ads there.

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    • boughtmysoul@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The bus doesn’t stop when you look at an ad.

      Try harder.

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    • waspentalive@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      And you should not. But perhaps you would not want the fares to rise?

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• hellequin67@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’ve long said to myself, the day revanced, smarttube and adblockers stop working is the day I stop browsing YT.

  I watched my son showered me something the other day, he can’t yet login via revanced so still has ads, what a shit show.

  I asked him how he copes with all the ads, he said I’m dumb to them now I just ignore it. But still coming from zero ads to that was a very jarring experience.

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  • sykaster@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    How does revanced work? How does it protect me from ads?

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    • lsibilla@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I don’t use revanced, but freetube. I guess it’s similar.

      It lets you play video without ads for free. It has a ui close enough to YouTube, which is nice.

      Also you watch video anonymously. So it won’t propose video based on what you have watched before. Which is nice or not… you decide.

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    • hellequin67@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s an android only apk which you sideload and strips all adds from YouTube content.

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• m3t00@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  remember when paying removed ads? crazy i know. no subs ever.

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• WindyRebel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Common People, Black Mirror Season 7

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• mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Youtube ads? I have no clue what you’re talking about…

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• Chivera@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Revanced, newpipe, grayjay, it’s all I need thank you.

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• FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The ads will continue until morale improves.

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• Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  How about we collectively say fuck youtube and move content to Odysee or something else?

  I’m fine with uBlock, but wouldn’t it be better if we just kill alphabet progressively? I’m already out Gsuite (nextcloud), gmail (own server), search (duckduckgo), chrome (firefox), I dont even link my phone to a gmail account. i just need to get ride of yt.

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• Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  YouTube became shittier, what’s new.

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• Surenho@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’d love to see a transition to other platforms like Nebula. As users it would be nice to start choosing by principles too.

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• atlien51@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Wait so you pay for premium and still get ads?

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  • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Premium light i guess. So you pay to get some ads? I don’t know

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• lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m self-hosting Invidious… I get a nice YouTube experience without ever visiting YouTube.

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  • alekwithak@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Wasn’t aware of this, that’s awesome. Unfortunately it would need to be able to cast to various HTPCs and be easy enough for my family to use to fully replace YouTube in my house.

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• vala@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I confirm that I will see zero ads.

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• chaosCruiser@futurology.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Problem solved! I don’t need to think about this premium stuff any more. Recently, I’ve been playing with the idea of paying for premium, but that’s no longer the case. Specifically, the family pack is the one that kinda made some limited sense in the past. I can see the kind of game Google is playing, and I’m not planning to participate.

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• Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Would you like to pay us and have ads?

  • Google

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• venusaur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Y’all pay for YouTube?

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  • Mihies@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I would of there was a family tier that plays YouTube without ads in my country. The content I watch is good and authors deserve payment IMO. Sadly there is currently no competition, there are some marginal subscription services and there is peertube which doesn’t have monetization.

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    • venusaur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The ad revenue YouTube gets should be paying the content creators, no?

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• Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Firefox and ublock.

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• pfr@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Why has no one heard of FREETUBE!?!?!?

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• TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  No time like the present to begin creating a European alternative, given the geopolitics of the times.

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  • skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Please support peertube, it’s kind of like the Lemmy of streaming videos in that it’s a federated collection of providers.

    A list of instances: https://joinpeertube.org/instances

    e.g. peertube.tv

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