Vanced is pretty good. It seems like it's just the official YouTube app but with premium for free. Newpipe is another ad-free YouTube app. https://newpipe.net/ It's FOSS and doesn't use your Google account, or any of the YouTube APIs. You can still manage subscriptions but you have to import them manually.
It explicitly doesn't provide Premium for free, all premium features but the picture in picture support are still locked behind purchase.
Asking this question in good faith and in the interest of a productive discussion: Can someone give me their reasoning for why to use this over just paying for YouTube premium? They're providing a service that you value and spend enough time on to warrant looking for a way to not have to view ads, and if everyone were to start using Vanced overnight, YouTube wouldn't be able to justify staying up indefinitely. It fee…
Personally, I pay for Premium but I also think everyone should run an ad-blocker on Google properties. I certainly do. It's at least nice if my premium sub gives 3 cents to the creators of the videos I watch since they wouldn't be getting ad money...
Asking this question in good faith and in the interest of a productive discussion: Can someone give me their reasoning for why to use this over just paying for YouTube premium? They're providing a service that you value and spend enough time on to warrant looking for a way to not have to view ads, and if everyone were to start using Vanced overnight, YouTube wouldn't be able to justify staying up indefinitely. It fee…
Some people can’t afford $12 a month, especially with that measly 150k tech salary. Really gotta start budgeting these days.
Funny how people want content but don’t want to support content creators via ads or paying for YouTube Premium. The internet in a nutshell. Ironically if people weren’t so avoidant of paying for digital content, ads, and the subsequent tracking, would’ve never emerged.
The best way to support creators actually is to support them directly. Youtube takes half the ad revenue, and ad revenue generally doesn't pay much anyways.
If this were actually true creators would have paywalls.
Fact of the matter is that YouTube and the visibility benefits the average creator tremendously. Only once you’re super popular like joe Rogan are you in a position to do better by yourself.
Asking this question in good faith and in the interest of a productive discussion: Can someone give me their reasoning for why to use this over just paying for YouTube premium? They're providing a service that you value and spend enough time on to warrant looking for a way to not have to view ads, and if everyone were to start using Vanced overnight, YouTube wouldn't be able to justify staying up indefinitely. It fee…
Personally, I already pay for Google One, run my phone lines on Google Fi, and only use YouTube for an average of 15-20 minutes of content per day. Google Fi aside, surely somebody, somewhere, at Google can just bundle these things up and I can just pay a single monthly rate to be "in" the Google universe? I'm not paying $12/mo for something I barely use, to a company that I already give money to for a "premium" membership tier. I also don't have the time to check what crazy bundles Google is attempting to offer this month that will simply not exist next month. I am happy to pay for Google's services, but why do they feel the need to make that an actively hostile process?
Asking this question in good faith and in the interest of a productive discussion: Can someone give me their reasoning for why to use this over just paying for YouTube premium? They're providing a service that you value and spend enough time on to warrant looking for a way to not have to view ads, and if everyone were to start using Vanced overnight, YouTube wouldn't be able to justify staying up indefinitely. It fee…
Google profits through monetizing my personal information whether I want them to or not.
There's no need to add insult to injury and pay them.
Asking this question in good faith and in the interest of a productive discussion: Can someone give me their reasoning for why to use this over just paying for YouTube premium? They're providing a service that you value and spend enough time on to warrant looking for a way to not have to view ads, and if everyone were to start using Vanced overnight, YouTube wouldn't be able to justify staying up indefinitely. It fee…
For me its the gross level of targeted tracking. Google is essentially spyware at its roots. If paying for it stopped that it would be one thing, but its not.
Asking this question in good faith and in the interest of a productive discussion: Can someone give me their reasoning for why to use this over just paying for YouTube premium? They're providing a service that you value and spend enough time on to warrant looking for a way to not have to view ads, and if everyone were to start using Vanced overnight, YouTube wouldn't be able to justify staying up indefinitely. It fee…
I feel content on the internet was free for so long, people just feel entitled to it. Now everyone is anti-ad, with most not being able to support an argument as to why targeted ads are bad (like any human at Google cares how user 1839028934 watches vtubers for 8 hours a day), but they still feel entitled to consume content for free.
This feels like a really condescending take on the people you disagree with. Why do you assume it's entitlement? Netflix thrives because they're worth paying for.
People have the right to not be watched, no matter how "anonymous" it is. Why do you have a problem with that?