- rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish9 minutes
I’d gladly pay them about $10 a month for a family plan.
At that point, maintaining AdBlocker updates on half a dozen different platforms would be more pain than the money.
But let’s be honest, they’re not putting out Netflix and Disney quality content, it’s just 5-9’s of slop with an occasional diamond of a creator.
at $27 a month, and a trajectory over time to be more expensive than cable, they can fuck right off.
- eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish1 hour
Loool, I think about cancelling stuff all the time.
Hell I think I’ll go cancel something right now.
- HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish3 hours
THE UNTHINKABLE! Not paying for trumping trumpy service or goods. We should pay for things no matter how bad they are of course.
6 hoursDramatic much? Canceling a subscription is ‘the unthinkable’ now? For fuck’s sake.
- InnerScientist@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
forcing many users to consider the unthinkable “Do I really need 300 subscriptions?”
Okay, but they are not just paying more for the same service. YouTube Premium is worth more now because it allows you to avoid 90 second unstoppable ads. So don’t say Google doesn’t do anything for its
consumerscustomers!- Art3mis@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
I havent seen an ad on YT in like 2 years and i havent had premium in 3 years
- quack@lemmy.zipEnglish2 hours
Depends on where you’re watching YouTube, but there’s options for most devices. On PC you can use an ad blocker such as uBlock Origin, or a browser with a built in ad blocker like Brave. If you use a phone you can use the mobile browser version (not perfect but pretty serviceable) with a browser that blocks ads. There’s app options for Android such as Greyjay, and modded YouTube apps such as Revanced and Morphe. There’s an app called SmartTube Next that works on most smart TVs. If you have a VPN, setting it to Albania will cause ads to not be displayed on most services even if you’re using the official app and works on every device I’ve tried it on. There’s probably more ways but those are what I’m aware off the top of my head. There is no reason that in 2026 anyone should be seeing ads on YouTube.
- Dr_Del_Fuego@slrpnk.netEnglish4 hours
Because its a covering instead of saying underhanded or sneaky or tricking users.
“I didn’t steal, I was just quietly sneaking money from their wallet!”
- BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldEnglish5 hours
I’m speaking more of the reporting. It seems like every headline claims something is being done “quietly” now when it was actually announced loud and clear. Take this price hike, for example. I got an email from Google last week telling me the price went up. That wasn’t “quietly”. “Quietly” would be raising the price completely unannounced and hoping no one notices.
- Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish4 hours
The answer is simple: the site that published the article is complete garbage
Thanks for the reminder, just canceled my 2-month free trial with a few days to spare.
- PhoenixDog@lemmy.worldEnglish8 hours
There isn’t a single device in my home that shows YouTube ads.
I’ll jump through any hoop before I give that shit website money.
- Tottakai@europe.pubEnglish51 minutes
I don’t think that soviety is shit. I think we have done wonderful things in society. And we keep making it better. Every society has its problems, but there is a way to make them better.
Without society there wouldn’t be literature, medicine, knowlidge, science, etc.
Yes, there are bad things also, but as I said, we can and must make them better. And if you watch in the long run through history there is no better time to be living than now.
- TotalCourage007@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
And when they try to force online ID bullshit I’ll permanently walk away. We don’t deserve the WWW if its just full of scammers. I’d rather rewatch my favorite anime for the millionth time.
- PhoenixDog@lemmy.worldEnglish7 hours
Yup.
I think capitalism is shit but I’m still forced to participate in it. Until there is something better to use I’m stuck with YouTube.
- goldman60@lemmy.worldEnglish2 hours
Nobody is forcing you to consume content on the internet, this is a laughable defense. You aren’t forced by society or capitalism to watch YouTube.
- PhoenixDog@lemmy.worldEnglish2 hours
You’re absolutely right.
However, if I can consume said content without giving money to companies who are going over and above to be anti-consumer? I’ll 100% take advantage of that.
If YouTube wants to go out of their way to make it harder for me to watch legally, I’ll go out of my way to watch illegally. You think I pay for 17 different streaming services for TV shows me or my partner want to watch? Fuck all that we pay for IPTV.
Pirates like me don’t want to have to jump hoops to watch your shit. But all these streaming platforms, Youtube, Twitch, the greed has become so hard to ignore that it’s impossible to rationalize paying them to fuck you anyway. Pay $18 a month for this service to watch this show, but this other show is on another service for another $16 a month. Fuck all that I’ll just open up whichever pirating site I have saved and download the fucking show in a half hour and toss it on my external HDD and watch it anyway.
I have no respect for companies that don’t respect their consumers.
- PhoenixDog@lemmy.worldEnglish3 hours
Okay. Let me know when the dozens of content creators I follow on YouTube migrate there.
- tomjuggler@lemmy.worldEnglish13 hours
I would like to add an honourable mention to your list here: Kodi YouTube add-on. Somehow this is working for me again after being broken for ages. It’s not the same (you need to use a Google account and API set-up) but no ads, auto play, recommend videos…
- lemmysir@lemmy.zipEnglish8 hours
Looks promising. It would work fine if I don’t want to login with Google? Does it run ads like YouTube? I see they plan to support a couple hosts, which is cool, one application for all media streaming.
Honestly I would probably pay for it and be happy but Premium doesn’t solve many of the problems that still exist:
- being shown the same content over and over
- Dislikes hidden
- in-video ads
- Shorts absolutely crammed down your throat everywhere
- broken search results
- AI-generated slop absolutely everywhere
- crypto spam
- Google-connected account using view history to spy on you
etc. etc. All problems Google could solve easily but simply won’t.
- mechoman444@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
I have like 8 or 9 plugins for Firefox and just to make YouTube remotely usable. That doesn’t account for the 8 or 9 more on top of that to make the internet remote usable.
- 17 hours
They finally lost me completely when I loaded a music video marked “adult” for language and it demanded I upload ID on an account that was legally an adult.
I made that account in 1999, it’s not even from this millennium, and they still derp out on it. I’m getting close to 50, at this point, and the only thing ads, age verification, and extreme right wing content on top of state sponsored disinformation campaigns will get you is a blacklist.
We should have seen it coming, I mean they used to have the “Don’t be evil” motto, removing that was a declaration of intent.
- RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish17 hours
I pay for YouTube and they wouldn’t accept the card I pay them with for validation.
So I took a photo of someone in a YouTube video and they accepted it as me and hey now I’m verified.
- 15 hours
Considering YT didn’t even start until 2005, I call BS 😁. Not to mention I don’t think they would’ve had accounts from the get go unless you wanted to upload videos.
- 13 hours
Gmail didn’t exist until 2004 or so. Google back then was a search engine in 1998 so there’d be no need for an "account"in the sense it’s used today. I mean, they’re probably not wrong claiming they have a Google account old enough to be legal since it’d only need to be from 2008 to be 18, and there was Gmail, YouTube, and Android (later on) by then.
Get Revanced and you can also block shorts from the UI completely, on top of no ads
You can get rid of the actually relevant issues with premium and giving negative reactions to unwanted content. I barely get shown AI stuff.
