We've gone full circle
You can at least pay (quite a lot less than a cable subscription) to remove them. It beats paying $80 a month for the great privilege of spending 30% of the time watching ads.
For now, of course.
Soon you’ll pay AND watch ads. Maybe there will be a free tier with 5 minute ad breaks, and paid tier with 1 minute ad breaks.
I pay for premium and still have to watch all the sponsored crap within the video itself. I block all those channels manually so it's slowly getting better.
Have you tried using SponsorBlock?
You can at least pay (quite a lot less than a cable subscription)
Well I should bloody well hope so, considering you also get far less than cable.
YouTube is still mostly amateur or indie content, most of it short-form, and most of it frankly just not very good. There's still stuff on there worth watching, and I know some people really do consume a lot of content on there in the manner of watching TV back in the day, but objectively it really isn't the same thing as professional studio content. I can watch some random guy in Ohio do a 15 minute review of some niche thing I'm interested in as much as anyone can, but there's no way I'd consider that worth the same value as a long form TV series or feature film.
Tbh paying a package deal isn't actually the worst thing. I get netflix, sky sports, BT sports, movies, all channels, 1gb broadband and 1 unlimited data SIM. £100 pm.
Yes it's expensive but it's £55 for 1gb broadband anyway. They have a stranglehold over football/soccer that it's hard to get away from. Yes you can pirate the stream but it's not the same.
This has fuck all to do with YT but generally getting packages individually isn't cheaper sometimes.
No, full circle would be more and longer ads.
Anyway, I’m a Smart Tube User :)
so, what? 4-5 minutes instead of 2? yea, that'll keep people watching.....
something else
You're welcome: https://github.com/yuliskov/smarttube
Can vouch. This, revanced and ublock on all my different devices and I haven't seen an ad in years
Anything for LG TVs? WebOS?
YouTube is fully enshitified. Useless app.
I open the vanilla app on someone else's computer the other day. Not logged in, in private browser mode, and the algorithm was immediately suggesting clips from Fox News and one of those loser Ben Shapiro types.
Even trying to find videos now. The search results seem to be clogged up of junk. Used to use it all the time to find a 30 second video for how to do some procedure or something. Now every single video is 10 minutes long and it's some idiot talking for 9 minutes about something unrelated and somewhere in the video buried between bullshit is 1 minute of useful content.
Came to YouTube because it was faster and easier than reading the manual but that's just not the case anymore.
The new ads suck. It's so frustrating to use. I'm hoping a PiHole will get rid of em but I think I remember reading that Google does some nasty shit to dodge that
I use SmartTube on my Android TV and it hasn't run into any issues so far. If you can install 3rd party apps you might want to give it a try
Yep I have it too. For now it works flawlessly. Hopefully it doesn't take much from Google's userbase and they just leave it alone lol.
Google uses the same domain name, pi-hole can't block that.
Source: current pi-hole user.
Pihole only works when ads come from a third party add provider. It cannot tell the difference between YouTube videos and ads.
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Smart tube is amazing.
That's odd... on my TV there are no youtube ads, and no sponsor messages.
I've been using grayjay, it certainly has some irritating bugs but they'll work out the kinks plus now I can watch twitch and kick with my screen off.
Not for me, 🚫ads + 🏴☠️
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They really can't seem to grasp the concept they what people prefer, if they have to watch ads, is 1 short ad per video.
Not multiple short ads per video nor 1 long ad. Just 1 short (15 seconds tops) ad and that's all.
They are going in the opposite direction
Oh they get it, there's no way they don't, they just want more Ad dollars with for less content that isn't giving them Ad dollars.They're looking for that sweet sweet middle ground where they can play more ads and you won't just stop watching.
Cool, more reason to use Grayjay or ReVanced
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