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Re: YouTube’s annoying Premium spam

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Post by perl4ever »

alexis_fr wrote: post #18
perl4ever wrote: post #15

I can't remember if it was on YouTube or not, but the other day, I wanted to watch a video about an Acura concept car, and it forced me to watch a Honda ad. I quit in disgust. People insist that online advertising works, but it's just too much to swallow any more.

4 ads every 12 minutes was quite common on TV. I’ve always thought Youtube would ramp it up to this level one day. It’s only a matter of time until VoD does it too (Netflix? for 7$?).

It's not the quantity of ads overall, it's that the content I want to watch is frequently essentially an ad anyway, and in this case it was for the same entity, and yet I can't watch it uninterrupted.

Re: YouTube’s annoying Premium spam

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Post by jandeboevrie »

YouTube Vanced or Peertube don't show ads. They do show stories, which are stupid as well. Just as the recommendations are shit lately. Just more of the same instead of new interesting things.

If I can't block ads then I'll stop using YouTube. Did for half a year when I was on ios where adblock in the app didn't work.

Re: YouTube’s annoying Premium spam

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Post by cameronbrown »

Hokusai wrote: post #2

Welcome to the future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU3GzYcb1g8 Tech companies are an oligopoly with a few actors. Competitions do not offer enough pressure to make them change. Regulation is the only way forward if we do not want to end in a dystopia.

It's not about competition or regulation. Someone needs to find a way to drive down the cost of bandwidth.

Disclaimer in bio.

Re: YouTube’s annoying Premium spam

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Post by joegahona »

RKearney wrote: post #4

Even if you pay for YouTube Premium you’ll then get reoccurring pop-ups to sign up and pay for YouTube TV.

Maybe you guys are getting lost in multiple logins? I've had Youtube Red/Premium almost as long as it's been available, and I never see ads of any kind. I love it.

Re: YouTube’s annoying Premium spam

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Post by Jonnax »

gruez wrote: post #13
mitfahrener wrote: post #9

Got youtube premium so I can watch videos on my commute. NYC subway, no wifi, no 2g,3g,4g or 5g

...or use youtube-dl (or newpipe on your phone), which does the same for free

Yeah there's a cheaper way. But like using Spotify versus ripping CDs or piracy, the convenience of the tool is the value.

Re: YouTube’s annoying Premium spam

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Post by jowsie »

perlpimp wrote: post #14
drewg123 wrote: post #5

If you want to get rid of pop-ups, ads, and other annoyances, try Newpipe on Android, and SmartYouTubeTV on FireTV / Android TV https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe https://smartyoutubetv.github.io/

you can get your whole Google account suspended by using newpipe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21247759

No idea how common this is, but that particular case seems to most likely be fabricated.

Re: YouTube’s annoying Premium spam

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Post by Drakim »

cameronbrown wrote: post #33
Hokusai wrote: post #2

Welcome to the future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU3GzYcb1g8 Tech companies are an oligopoly with a few actors. Competitions do not offer enough pressure to make them change. Regulation is the only way forward if we do not want to end in a dystopia.

It's not about competition or regulation. Someone needs to find a way to drive down the cost of bandwidth. Disclaimer in bio.

I have the feeling that if you drive down the cost of bandwidth, the businesses that rely on it will say "Thank you" and change nothing, merely pocketing the bigger margin themselves.

The number of ads isn't proportional to bandwidth cost, it's about what their research shows they can get away with.

Re: YouTube’s annoying Premium spam

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Post by dastx »

drewg123 wrote: post #5

If you want to get rid of pop-ups, ads, and other annoyances, try Newpipe on Android, and SmartYouTubeTV on FireTV / Android TV https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe https://smartyoutubetv.github.io/

Also available is YouTube Vanced which is essentially the official YouTube app repackaged with privacy in mind.

Re: YouTube’s annoying Premium spam

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Post by 0xfaded »

ianai wrote: post #3
Hokusai wrote: post #2

Welcome to the future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU3GzYcb1g8 Tech companies are an oligopoly with a few actors. Competitions do not offer enough pressure to make them change. Regulation is the only way forward if we do not want to end in a dystopia.

Agree. We need some old school style trustbusting.

I originally succumbed to YouTube premium because of the bundled music. I remembered thinking at the time this bundling put Spotify at a disadvantage. When for unrelated reasons I started degoogling sure enough I went straight to Spotify.

Can someone explain where the boundary here is for antitrust?

Re: YouTube’s annoying Premium spam

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Post by dastx »

perlpimp wrote: post #14
drewg123 wrote: post #5

If you want to get rid of pop-ups, ads, and other annoyances, try Newpipe on Android, and SmartYouTubeTV on FireTV / Android TV https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe https://smartyoutubetv.github.io/

you can get your whole Google account suspended by using newpipe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21247759

NewPipe has no way for you to login or any thing like that, so if your account does get suspended on this premise, then people should be way more worried about Google's practices than they are.
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