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step 1: enable ublock origin in incognito mode in options step 2: right click video, open in incognito
For me, it also works to stop using Chrome and use Firefox instead (so far.)
I feel like I'm in the minority that has zero problem paying for an ad-free experience. I get tremendous value out of YouTube in both professional and personal ways. I have a daughter who watches it often. Suppressing ads while supporting the service my family enjoys regularly seems like a no-brainer to me. And I never have to worry about them circumventing my ad blocker.
this is fine until enough people pay
at which point they add ads for paying customers too
see: cable TV, netflix, disney plus, hulu, ...
I have such mixed feelings about this. I can't stand to waste the time on ads so I started using an alternative client that doesn't have any ads. However, I do recognize that I've been using youtube for 15+ years without paying a cent or watching any ads - which is pretty unreasonable. No streaming service or television channel has ever been free with no ads. I can't really justify it. And yet, I'm not willing to pay…
You can always choose not to use Youtube if you hate Ads so much.
Well, if that's their rules, it's a choice. If you pick up a free newspaper on a commmute, or, say, a community "What's on" sponsored by ads, does someone look over your shoulder and insist you read every ad before they let you turn the page?
You can always choose not to use Youtube if you hate Ads so much.
Such a silly comment when you know full well that YouTube has a monopoly on user supplied video content.
It is a monopoly doesn’t mean it is a public utility. PG&G has a monopoly in electricity in my region, does it mean I can steal the electricity because I don’t like PG&E and I don’t have other options?
All tv channels have either ads or you need to pay, how is this different than what YouTube is trying to do?
I saw the popup in FF, but interestingly YouTube doesn't seem to recognize Cromite's adblocker
From their perspective, they don't care if they are blocking all the adblockers, blocking the major ones on the major platforms is still a big win.
I find this interesting because there will undoubtedly be a cat-and-mouse game between YT and adblockers now.
I feel like I'm in the minority that has zero problem paying for an ad-free experience. I get tremendous value out of YouTube in both professional and personal ways. I have a daughter who watches it often. Suppressing ads while supporting the service my family enjoys regularly seems like a no-brainer to me. And I never have to worry about them circumventing my ad blocker.
And the answer was no. We used to pay them $284/year for our household services.
Now we pay them nothing. Maybe they'll have a change of heart someday, but until then, not a dime.
"Hey, AI, connect to YT using my browser and account with adblockers turned off, then check the usual channels grabbing new videos, then strip out all advertising content and make them available to me and my friends over this p2p encrypted connection."
Isn't it a little optimistic though to think that the AI itself will be free from advertising/grubby-monetization in the scheme of things? Sure, it feels great now, and maybe even you can pay for the GPU and run it on your own, but not everyone will, and either way the future is long! It just feels inevitable that somebody or something will come to collect one day, in one form or the other.
Would they be able to enforce this on Firefox or other browsers?
And not just browsers. I'm sure other clients exist. I'd be surprised if VLC doesn't already have an extension that allows you to play YouTube. They'll have to interpolate the ads into the stream. Then people will code clients that detects the ads and black them and mute them. Then YouTube will learn how that works and will change their ads not to trigger detection. Etc. This is called an arms race.
There are apps for this, and dozens of similar ones for all sorts of video players. I personally use SVP's because I already own it.
I think they mostly use youtube-dl under the hood to fetch the video URL, so that is a significant point of failure.
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I agree with all of that, and I sincerely was planning to become a paid subscriber. But I have some irrational resentment around being a statistic validating their increased pressure campaign. I don’t like feeling forced to spend the money! Which is weird because I get significantly more value from it than any streaming service.
Why does your mindset go to being "bullied", though? Aren't you the bully for circumventing their revenue model with the expectation that you should get it for free?