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Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon

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Re: Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon

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Post by saubeidl »

throwaway290 wrote: post #26
dbspin wrote: post #24

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Modern advertising was invented by Edward Bernays in his book 'Propaganda'. It is literally and specifically designed to manipulate beliefs and behaviour. Broadcast TV was created as content to package advertising, not the other way around. The social impact of advertising is enormous - primarily in reenforcing the helplessness and delusion of inevitably around disengaged consumer capitalism that Mark Fisher referred…

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> Manipulating beliefs and behavior is propaganda.

What do you think "changing brand perception and driving purchases" is, other than a euphemism for the above?

Re: Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon

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Post by jksflkjl3jk3 »

saubeidl wrote: post #34

If you're on desktop, use ublock origin and sponsor block. If you're on Android, use tubular ( https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular ). It has no ads, built-in sponsor block and allows you to download videos and play them in the background for music. If you're on Android TV, use Smart Tube ( https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube ). It basically has the same features as above, but with a TV-friendly UI. If you'r…

Firefox (or Ironfox) with ublock origin and background play fix works great on Android too, no need to use an app.

Re: Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon

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Post by saubeidl »

lynx97 wrote: post #43
AndrewDucker wrote: post #18

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Installing an adblocker is trivially easy. I just checked, and it took me 5 clicks total, and typing in "Ad blocker" in the addons search.

Tell that to my mom.

Be a good kid and install it for her.

Re: Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon

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Post by AndrewDucker »

eviks wrote: post #37
AndrewDucker wrote: post #18

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Installing an adblocker is trivially easy. I just checked, and it took me 5 clicks total, and typing in "Ad blocker" in the addons search.

Yes, especially if you ignore all the risks - does that solution you googled in 5 seconds steal your data after 5 clicks - it is easy

The risks of installing an add-on inside Firefox using their own Addon store?

What's Google got to do with that?

Re: Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon

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Post by bell-cot »

planb wrote: post #28

> Besides a non-ad-free experience, the $7.99 Premium Lite subscription also removed several other cool features like the ability to download videos for offline viewing and background play, which can be quite convenient for listening to music on the app. Speaking of music, YouTube Premium Lite also does not include access to YouTube Music. So what's the deal here? $8 for "less ads but none of the premium features"? I…

> Who on earth is the target group ...

Folks who aren't paying much attention, but are paying $8/month.

Re: Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon

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Post by lan321 »

AndrewDucker wrote: post #45
eviks wrote: post #37

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Yes, especially if you ignore all the risks - does that solution you googled in 5 seconds steal your data after 5 clicks - it is easy

The risks of installing an add-on inside Firefox using their own Addon store? What's Google got to do with that?

I assume parent is linking at googling being absolutely ass nowadays with sponsored links leading to malware. Then again that's not an adblock issue but an ad issue.

Re: Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon

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Post by lan321 »

worble wrote: post #25
pil0u wrote: post #23

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I have uBlock Origin on FF, just this morning it stopped working on YouTube. YouTube now tells me I am allowed for 3 videos because I'm adblocking them.

Nearly every time I see this, it's because people have other addons colliding which cause issues. You only need uBlock origin; get rid of Ghostery, Privacy Badger, adblock for youtube or any of that other stuff. Other extensions can cause uBlock to not work correctly. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock?tab=readme-ov-file#all-pro... > Do NOT use uBO with any other content blocker. uBO performs as well as or better than…

I had something like this for a while as well. I think they just target subsets of adblock users since I have multiple friends with the same configuration who didn't get it. My solution was FreeTube with LibRedirect.
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