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…
I don’t get ads on YouTube in my iPhone, and all it took was using the website instead of the app. What am I missing exactly?
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…
> 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 application…
It sounds like you didn't pick a phone where a big corp doesn't control what software you can run.
I'd recommend getting a Pixel and installing Graphene.
> 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 deal here is that maintaining a free hosting service for 4k videos is not profitable, even with shitload of ads. This is hard truth that nobody wants to hear. My suggested solution is that once businesses grow beyond certain size, the government should step in and buy them out. This would allow to provide such services at a loss. Like, for example, railway in Europe. The only reason why it's even remotely usable is because it's funded from taxpayers' money. And they also started as private companies that would later become de-facto branches of the government.
Ads shape opinions. Why do political parties spend so much on them? Carefully curated ads can control you on subtle levels. Read the Propaganda book that another reply cited and also read Elul’s. Also read the works or experiments by B.F Skinner and then Kaheneman. You’ll notice this golden thread that ultimately culminates in “mind control” today via algorithmic shaping for content curation and advertisement. It’s w…
> Ads shape opinions
If you think ads shape opinions and everything else doesn't, you are tragically and ironically misinformed.
The only difference is that ads are explicit about it. There is no better way of subsidizing free content, clearly delimited from the content and not influencing the nature of that content unlike sponsorship blocks for example. If you take away ads all you have left is ads disguised as content + paid only content, because as I said: no one is obligated to feed anyone's black hole of content consumption for free.
From your own link: > In the 1910s and 1920s, many ad men believed that human instincts could be targeted and harnessed – "sublimated" into the desire to purchase commodities.[44] Edward Bernays, a nephew of Sigmund Freud, promoted the approach making him a pioneer of modern cigarette advertising
> Manipulating beliefs and behavior is propaganda. What do you think "changing brand perception and driving purchases" is, other than a euphemism for the above?
If you can't differentiate between things like "you should hate another country" (propaganda) vs things like "you should know about this product" (ad), I don't know what to tell you.
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…