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Re: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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Post by arepublicadoceu »

deltree7 wrote: post #78
wnevets wrote: post #4

On a related note as someone who uses YouTube constantly YouTube Premium is absolutely worth it.

HN/Reddit : For years, "I'm happy to pay for services that has no/few ads". Companies: Here's a ad-free version. Subscribe HN/Reddit: Why are you asking me to subscribe? I hate this

Please teach me how I can watch Linus Tech Tips on YouTube without ads with YouTube premium and without installing an extension.

There are several levels of ads on YouTube and paying for YouTube premium only gets rid of one.

Re: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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Post by ChatGTP »

karaterobot wrote: post #67

Is it weird that this makes me want to subscribe to YouTube premium less than before? Feels like I've been poised to give them money for a while, since so many people seem to like the service. Now I feel like they're challenging me to a duel.

I’m happy because I won’t pay them and now they’re forcing me off the platform, win for me.

Re: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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Post by worewood »

KomoD wrote: post #83
systemtest wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it possible to get YouTube Premium without a credit-card? That is what stopped me from subscribing before.

If you don't pay with a card then what would you pay with?

Probably gift cards like Play Store ones. In fact as it is all Google I think it already could be a thing

Re: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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Post by candiodari »

KomoD wrote: post #83
systemtest wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it possible to get YouTube Premium without a credit-card? That is what stopped me from subscribing before.

If you don't pay with a card then what would you pay with?

Something that doesn't get Google to ban accounts? Blocking a payment to Google or doing a charge-back is involved in nearly all account closure complaints on this site.

Btw: as someone who's worked in banks, I'd like to point out that there are circumstances where some banks will charge-back automatically (or outright "accept the payment", then not pay), if they suspect fraud for example.

Re: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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Post by dredmorbius »

SirMaster wrote: post #9
pwg wrote: post #6

Or just download with yt-dlp ( https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp ).

Why even download? You can use third party media players like MPC-BE or MPC-HC that leverage yt-dlp to stream the video into a media player without any ads of course. Yes, sometimes it makes sense to download if you want to keep the video, but to just watch just stream it via yt-dlp to a media player.

Downloading is an option, though there are of course numerous others:

- You can stream directly. I do this via a bash function for cases where mpv itself doesn't play a video (for reasons I've been unable to / not had the spoons to track down):

  ytmpv () { yt-dlp -o - -f bestaudio "$1" | mpv - ; }
- You can use ytdlp as a front-end to other tools, and in fact if you peek under the bonnet you'll find that many YouTube / video streaming tools are in fact using yt-dlp as their access mechanism.

- There are times when downloading a video is the only way to be assured that you'll have access to content in the future, or when offline. Note that when YouTube removes content it also removes all metadata associated with that content, including title, description, and the account which had posted it.

Re: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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Post by wnevets »

corvec wrote: post #64
wnevets wrote: post #4

On a related note as someone who uses YouTube constantly YouTube Premium is absolutely worth it.

I had YouTube Family at $15/month until this month, when they raised the price to $23. I signed up back when Google Play Music was still a thing. I was never able to get into YouTube Music, though, so I don't actually use it to stream my music. The fact that my playlists are shared between YouTube and YouTube Music is enough for me to drop it from serious consideration as a music streaming service on its own. That, p…

> That, plus the lack of lossless streaming, inconsistent, clunky UI, and lack of any positive features that distinguish it from Spotify, Tidal, and Apple Music, is why I never used it for anything other than sharing songs with people who didn't use Tidal.

The UX and performance of the YouTube Music web client is so much worse than the old Google Music web client. I used to be able to scroll my entire album collection without a hiccup on Google Music, that's now impossible with YouTube Music

Re: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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Post by firstlink »

thot_experiment wrote: post #21
mikece wrote: post #3

If YouTube blocks me from watching videos because I use an ad blocker then I'll stop watching videos on YouTube. I don't care if this doesn't hurt YouTube... it will help me stop spending so much time on YouTube.

100% this, I'm not watching ads. I haven't really seen any advertising on my electronic devices in a decade (edit: actually closer to two decades) and that's the way it will continue to be. My time is valuable, my mental space is valuable, my computer is mine. You will not make it do things I don't want it to do. Advertising is a plague on society. (I speak from experience, I worked for 3 years at an ad agency.)

I must confess I still don't understand why ads are not a CFAA violation. I mean, what are the website operators going to argue? That you voluntarily configured your user agent to display them? That argument is far too dangerous to the advertisers.

Re: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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Post by atyppo »

arepublicadoceu wrote: post #91
deltree7 wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN/Reddit : For years, "I'm happy to pay for services that has no/few ads". Companies: Here's a ad-free version. Subscribe HN/Reddit: Why are you asking me to subscribe? I hate this

Please teach me how I can watch Linus Tech Tips on YouTube without ads with YouTube premium and without installing an extension. There are several levels of ads on YouTube and paying for YouTube premium only gets rid of one.

Can't speak to this channel specifically, but SponsorBlock works incredibly well, even for medium to smaller-sized channels.

Re: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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Post by thisgoodlife »

ChatGTP wrote: post #93
karaterobot wrote: post #67

Is it weird that this makes me want to subscribe to YouTube premium less than before? Feels like I've been poised to give them money for a while, since so many people seem to like the service. Now I feel like they're challenging me to a duel.

I’m happy because I won’t pay them and now they’re forcing me off the platform, win for me.

That’s a win win. You shouldn’t be forced to use the platform. And the platform shouldn’t be forced to provide you services for free
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