What about using yt-dlp to watch videos?
Downloading the videos is always an option, but I’ve found it’s too much of a hassle when browsing content. It works really well when you’re planning on going offline, though!
Anti-Anti-Adblocker uBlock filter to get rid of the annoying YouTube message
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#82If you have a VPN with a Ukraine location, you can set it to there and purchase YouTube Premium for ~$2.70/month. That's what I just ended up doing. I use Mullvad as my vpn provider.
not sure why youtube premium asks me `CA$12.99` (canadian dollars?) with mullvad & youtube location set to Ukraine
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Paying the ad company is not a good way to get to a place where there are fewer ads.
"a place where there are fewer ads" requires some alternate form of monetization. If "paying for it" isn't acceptable to you, what's left?
Just wait ~5 years when they have to show more growth by adding newer tiers of subscription, and making the current one ad-lite.
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At this point, I consider blocking ads to be a moral obligation. By giving in, you enable Youtube to abuse users further
Stealing is never a moral obligation. The only moral choices are not using YouTube or paying for it - and if you truly believe YouTube abuses users, you definitely shouldn’t be encouraging more people to use it, which your presence does by telling creators they get more traffic there.
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Even if it was 10 cents in some other country, I'll never pay a single cent to google, they don't need and most of all don't deserve my money.
Premium actually gives more money to creators you watch on YouTube than ads do. It's win-win IMO. Save yourself time, give them more money. Also comes with YouTube Music which is quite good (arguably worse than Google Play Music was but eh)
Creators get even more money if you instead donate to their Patreon or click the big "Thanks" button under the video to contribute to their channel directly. Best part is you don't have to turn off your adblock!
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I believe this is what you are looking for: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37873749 But I also recommend purchasing YouTube Premium if you watch a decent amount. I find it to be a great value.
At this point, I consider blocking ads to be a moral obligation. By giving in, you enable Youtube to abuse users further
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This is what i did when i got the "we are going to start blocking playback ...." Message and it worked great. Moral of the story is track content creators you like with rss and you dont need to be logged in.
I was planning to code this with yt-dlp, to just download the videos and never open the webside again.... I just have to figure out how to implement sponsor-block, to remove the "this video is sponsored by shadow raid vpn" messages... probably can be done with ffmpeg :)
just fyi, but this already exists via platforms like invidious, which is like a self-hosted youtube proxy that you interact with, and it dumps files to disk/etc. there are some other similar things already too.
not that you shouldn't use yt-dlp, because it's great!
and yes, as others mention - you can have yt-dlp use sponsorblock to cut out the ad sections too.
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"a place where there are fewer ads" requires some alternate form of monetization. If "paying for it" isn't acceptable to you, what's left?
I’m fine paying for content (I subscribe to Nebula and Spotify, for example); I am not fine paying to enrich organizations that engage in widespread surveillance and ad technology. Ads make the world worse. Creators make it better. Google’s problem is that their mission statement is fundamentally misleading. They aren’t here to organize the world’s information and make it accessible, they are here to maximize ad reve…
That’s a fair position, but shouldn’t you simply shorten it to not using YouTube? Your activity helps their ad system and using it tells creators that they get more views by putting things on YouTube.
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How about I don't watch ads and don't buy premium?
How about you stop using YouTube? Getting annoyed by ads is understandable, but server space isn't free.
How about you stop using ad block/popup blockers altogether? Getting annoyed by ads is understandable, but server space isn't free on any website.
In fact, how about we all rally together and start encouraging addings ads on HackerNews to help pay for the servers?
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
I believe this is what you are looking for: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37873749 But I also recommend purchasing YouTube Premium if you watch a decent amount. I find it to be a great value.
At this point, I consider blocking ads to be a moral obligation. By giving in, you enable Youtube to abuse users further
If you have a moral obligation why would you even use YouTube?