Ads are psychological warfare. Adblock is digital self-defence.
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You can always just use a browser that has one built in...
Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon
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#62YouTube without an adblocker is borderline unusable. I would have no problem paying for premium if they didn’t also steal your data. They can’t have both, not from me anyway.
This cannot be stresses enough. I genuinely do not understand how people can use the free version of YouTube without an adblocker.
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#63> 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…
the "target" group is probably bundles of useless products from partners like "buy our useless SaaS and get a free Youtube Premium subscription!"
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#65If 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…
Sponsorblock has a Safari extension in the iOS app store and it works quite well. Doesn't block ads though.
Re: Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon
#66If 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…
I'm using Firefox with UBO and for quite a while now every YT video stops playing after 45 seconds with an error message. So I made a bookmarklet that opens the embed link instead, which does not error out, but some videos can't be played that way at all.
No one else seems to have that specific problem. Am I the only one with this issue?
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#67> 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…
It's amusing how they unironically continue to do this so plainly even after dystopian shows like black mirror and others mock this tactic aggressively in their latest outings. In the past, companies would try harder to hide a highly publicized bait and switch scam if they continued to make use of it. Subscription monetization schemes have truly hit a dead end if they can't bother even hiding it anymore.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
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To paraphrase the words of the lady in the political scene: "keep your filthy hands off my computer." I will run on my PC whatever I want and you don't dictate it I want to run adblockers or not. I don't think anyone minds the ads. I think we all mind the tracking, data brokers, and that OUR data and OUR profile are mishandled by a bunch of greedy thugs. So yeah, cat and mouse till the end of time. I don't know about…
No, I mind the ads. I mind the online banner ads. I mind the ads inserted into videos from hosting platforms or from creators. I mind the ads on physical billboards. I mind the ads people wear. I want none of them.
Re: Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon
#69If 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…
> If you're on iOS, consider switching to an OS where a big corp doesn't control what software you can run.
Sure! I literally just picked up a new Razr 2025 last night.
Out of the box, its built in “device pulse” application sideloaded another 15 apps out of the box I never asked for, consented for, or wanted, ranging from scammy games to garbage like Tiktok and Pintrest.
I didn’t get to say “no” to those applications… sounds like a big corp controlled what software I can run. They even put the application installer into the ‘nodisable’ list so I can’t kill it, and I can’t unlock the bootloader or any of that other great stuff everyone says Androids can do.
What now?
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#70> 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…
the "target" group is probably bundles of useless products from partners like "buy our useless SaaS and get a free Youtube Premium subscription!"
Exactly. You can’t believe how the people at YouTube are salivating at the future conversion rate from people who got Lite from their cell phone provider.