Technology

Ironic that just yesterday I was getting blocked on youtube telling me that adblocking was illegal/against tos/whatever and that if i didnt want Ads I could subscribe to Youtube Premium.. only now to announce ads on premium.

What a fucking shithole company.

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and they continue to take no accountability for failing to police their own ads, thus creating the essential need for adblocking services in the first place.

WE WOULDNT BE BLOCKING ADS IF YOU REGULATED ADVERTISERS LIKE YOU ARE TRYING TO REGULATE VIEWERS.

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

If it weren't Google, I wouldn't be against paying. Fuck Google.

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?

And with that I can confirm I will continue to use adblock.

Had a "youtube doesnt allow adblock" pop up yesterday, set up freetube. No login required, even has a subscription import tool. So far so great.

Youtube has ads?

They are really dedicated to helping foster the pirate side of the Web, aren't they?

I'm self-hosting Invidious... I get a nice, free YouTube experience without ever visiting YouTube.

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.

WTF is Premium Lite?

Well, I'm still happy that my grandfathered $7.99 plan from the GPM days still holds up, fully ad-free.

YouTube has so many ads now it's ridiculous. Yesterday YouTube threatened me with the popup even though I have UBlock on Firefox. I've seen 10 ads on a 20 minute video. As if the un-skipabble 2 minute long ads that pause when you switch tabs wasn't bad enough, YouTube is now putting ads in their Premium.

YouTube is in dire need of a big competitor and fast.

Youtube is telling me daily that they'll soon disable my youtube because I have an ad blocker. Still waiting for it to actually happen.

Or, and hear me out: just install a browser plugin and forget ads exist.

I hesitate to name extensions names, but I’ve literally never seen an ad on YouTube.

These companies don’t respect us, so I don’t feel the need to respect them by allowing them to force their meaningless bullshit down my throat.

I don’t use it that much, but you better believe if I go to YouTube to watch a video, that video is the only thing I’m watching.

I hope more and more people learn that spotify can also be used to host videos.

Lul I have uBlock origin and no ads for free

I think I'm understanding the playbook here.

Eventually YouTube will cost 89.99 a month and also be full of ads.

Then they will be disrupted by some startup company that will have to fight uphill for search and bandwidth access through Google's monopolistic front door.

Years later a court case will be decided and the new guy will be up and running a free service with a few ads or 1.99 a month for no ads!

And then we get to go through it all again.

It's a sad state of affairs. I would pay for youtube in a heartbeat if it wasn't connected to the biggest spyware company in the world. But now, even while paying you still get ads and they still track you. The people working at Alphabet are bad and should feel bad.

It feels insane to me that you're paying and you still get ads. I fucking refuse to do that

They will always want you to watch more ads. Doesn't matter that you literally pay them not to. Manipulating your purchase habits is more profitable than your subscription is because your tolerance for ads sets the amount they can sell.