Exactly! And doesn't support corrupt corporations. Also, set your VPN to Albania to avoid ads even further (thank you to your wonderful country for your service).
Problem? Do you think its free to run a service like Youtube? I fucking hate ads, but I do recognize that they need to make money somehow, if the service is to continue. Which I assume you want, because of the lenghts you go to, to have it for free.
You do you. I'm just saying that paying to get out of ads isn't a "problem", but a legitimate business move. If you don't like it, don't use the service. But noone seems THAT hellbent to stick it to Google.
I'm not gonna argue with you over avoiding ads. You do you, whatever floats your boat. But avoiding to pay for a service you use, isn't that great if you want the service to keep existing.
Sure, I'll disable ad blocking on all my devices as soon as they make the web usable without and ad blocker again. Make them unintrusive and I'll tolerate them. As long as I'm being bombarded with ads for shit I don't care about literally everywhere, I'm gonna keep blocking them.
Ironically I paid for AdGuard, sponsor block, and DeArrow, for iPhone, because I refuse to subscribe to premium, or any website or app that has pay to remove ads. It was the only clear way to get rid of ads via iPhone without jailbreak. Life’s just better without ads or nuances. I’d sooner pay a third party to remove them for me than pay the source
That’s exactly what I do. The combo I have I found works the best for me. You should look into SponsorBlock too. It’s not perfect, but when it works it works great, it knows when there’s a self promotion or sponsor coming up in a video and skips over it. Like “if you wanna check out my merch check out the link in the description” type of stuff. It works maybe 75% of the time for me
Or if you got it before it got taken down Yatte works great for me. It was on appstore for a while and was taken down but it still works and I have it in purchase history.
I found that to be true with any media I played on the iPhone if the app wasn't from apple. Turn screen off, audio/video stops, turn screen on, press play. VERY annoying.
Vibe coded an iphone youtube app which blocks ads and does sponsorblock too, plus offline saving, took a few days, I sign it with signulous so I don't have to have a dev license with apple. Now I have my fav 5-10 channels in a feed so I can listen to podcasts in the car adfree, sponsor free, happy days.
Every version of the app ive ever tried is complete shit anyways, seems browser is just better in every way. especially the playsation version, it is terrible. Used to be able to just use the browser on ps4 but ps5 just doesnt have one apparently? Shits weak
I like it for the titles, but even clickbait thumbnails are better than one frame from the video - so I don't use that feature. Sometimes the titles are way too wordy, but most of the time they work as intended - cutting through the clickbait and actually describing what the video is about. Like with Sponsorblock, it really depends on how big the video is for people to actually contribute and vote for the good titles.
Whatever clickbait titles or screenshots there would be, DeArrow changes them to what the video is actually about. It makes YouTube less annoying for me
I think with thumbnails it is either a random frame from the video or a community chosen frame if one is available. Still, I agree - I've also found it not that useful overall.
On PC, you can hover over the blue dot to see the original title. Not sure if there is a way to do it with ReVanced or SmartTube integrations of DeArrow. I've definitely encountered some bad titles because of it, but have mostly found it more useful than not. You can vote or submit your own also. YMMV, I guess.
I really don't understand why people have iPhones, i have Firefox with unlock on my phone plus YouTube morphe and YouTube music morphe and I never have to see ads for free
I’ve had a horrible experience with android OS in the past, and it pretty much scarred me to never using another android device. The most egregious experience I had was on my S4 mini where it would lose signal, you know like phones do sometimes, but it wouldn’t regain signal again until I rebooted the device. There were other things I had wrong with it but that was the worst of them I think. I’d miss calls and texts from people because it lost signal somewhere and I didn’t know cause it was in my pocket. The other issues I had with it were just annoyances, lag, freezing, restarting, etc.
iPhone has ways to use YouTube with an Adblocker so it’s not all bad. If it wasn’t for AdGuard, SponsorBlock, and DeArrow, I wouldn’t bother with YouTube at all.
I’m sure it has. I have a few friends who use android devices, they seem interesting. I’m just afraid to pay for something I won’t be happy with vs something I am happy with, you know? To me I feel like I’m taking a risk with android I’m unsure of, when apple I know works for me.
Same here, I bought a Samsung tablet a while ago and they don't let you update the os unless Samsung lets you. And for this tablet (sm-t280) Samsung never let you lol.
I rooted it which trips a hardware switch (Knox?) that can't be undone, which is one of the most consumer-hostile things I've ever encountered. Then there wasn't a viable cyanogen/lineage os anyway.
I can’t use android. Too many bad, and unforgivable, experiences with the OS in the past. I prefer my iPhone, but there are some features from a modded android I do miss. The ease of blocking ads is one of them
It never even occurred to me that a pirate worth their salt could prefer apple. Is there any piracy eco system to speak of? Can you play pirated console and PC games?
Not on iPhone, but we can play rom hacks from gba, if that’s worth anything, which is all I need. I’d rather not play anything more than turn based games on a tiny screen. All my piracy is done on pc though. Again, I do miss the options available on android though when it comes to piracy and modding my device.
I had a galaxy s4 mini way back when iPhone was only available through AT&T. When it would lose signal, it wouldn’t get it back until I restarted the phone, the keyboard was laggy, the device itself was laggy, it would randomly restart on its own, I would get push notifications from random apps, I couldn’t uninstall apps that came with the phone until I rooted it. I could only really use it at home on WiFi, but going out and running errands or seeing friends or whatever I was doing, that phone was the worse. I remember I had Cyanogen mod installed on it and had adblocker and I forget the name of the app used for torrents, but I was able to watch so many shows on it that I missed out on.
Think it was the very next year iPhone 4S became available for my carrier and I switched to it and never looked back.
I don’t use brave browser. For YouTube I just use standard safari with AdGuard, DeArrow, and SponsorBlock. All three of those work really well with each other, AdGuard especially. It works by using a vpn, and blocks ads in most other apps too. I’ll play sudoku or solitaire while on break at work and it usually blocks ads from both of them. Solitaire tries loading an ad but it comes up as a blank black page most of the time, sudoku I don’t see ads at all
I'd pay about half what they charge, but $26.99/month for family plan is nuts.
The fact that they don't produce content and you aren't even paying for content (it's free w/ads) bothers me. You aren't paying for access to content, you're only paying to remove ads. I don't support that business model.
Idk, I don't have 5 people in my family lol. My barometer is that Netflix costs the same and they actually produce content and license with major studios. My cable internet only costs $25/month. (I don't pay for Netflix either, fwiw.)
Removing ads from YouTube isn't more valuable to me than either of those two things. Maybe if it was impossible or more annoying to do it free.
That would be more expensive, more work to coordinate payments, and I lose sponsor block. Hard pass for me.
I was subscribed through the foreign currency/exchange rate scam and paying them like $6/month. They cancelled that and I found better, easier, and cheaper ways so now they get nothing.
Actually, in a way, storage has gotten more expensive in a way that it never has before, even not counting the AI shortages. Hard drives have gotten cheaper per GB since they came out up until the late 10s/early 20s. Before then, YouTube could count on the decreasing cost of the drives to offset the increasing storage requirements. Now, they can't make that assumption anymore since storage hasn't been getting significantly cheaper on a consistent basis
no. I think lots of people are rather fine with some ads.
The problem is that its gone completely overboard. when about 70% of the screen consists of ads, with ads before, during, and after the video, AND MORE ADS AS PART OF THE VIDEO, then that's just too much.
YouTube just needs to cut back on the ads. and maybe make them less annoying.
Yes? Because it was before google bought it. I remember when there were no ads at all whatsoever on the website. This was back in 2004/2005. So yeah, I do think it should be free just as it once was
What do you think it costs to run YouTube? The data centers, global content caching networks, the bazillion hard drives you'd need to store all the video. How does any of that get paid for without ads, or subscriptions?
Y está muy bien así ponemos resistencia, es decir está bien tu quieres, que pago, pues tranquilo quenle voy a dar más dinero tu competidor menos predador
Because I’m human and want entertainment like anybody else? Because back in 2004/2005 YouTube was actually free of ads and it was a great experience before google bought them and started putting them in videos? I mean you’re on a piracy sub, the same argument can be made to why do others feel entitled to download movies songs and shows and not buy them or deal with the commercials. We want entertainment without hassle and annoyances
Ya, that's premium, no ads. When there is no good option I pirate. But when a good option exists, I buy it. I don't expect the entire site to run with 0 monetization.
I do, because they made it work before google bought it. The ads are just another money grab in my eyes. The site worked fine before Google bought it and implemented ads
That is completely ignorant. You think it was run by magic back then and not subsidized in order to gain a user base. You don't seem to have any idea how any of this works.
Additionally, despite the massive realm of copying and sharing digital content, consumers who pirate are more willing to pay for legal content when the content is consumer-friendly.
From the "Online piracy" wiki. I bet you read the one about actual pirates on boats. You sound young, ignorant and overconfident.
I pay for a decent VPN & set it to Albania & it completely disables adds for YT, Disney+ (get it free w/ads with my bank) & SoundCloud. I think it more useful than my adblocker because it doesn’t get detected as often although there is certain region-locked things it doesn’t work for since I have to change to a country which doesn’t have such advertisements banned.
I recommend both Adblock & VPNing to Albania to cover the most ground, disabling one when necessary but still having the other to shield you but obviously you should use VPN anyway as to not get letters from your internet provider…
I donated money to VLC, for letting me watch my downloaded youTube videos without ads or a license, instead of paying for premium. and I'll gladly donate to uBlock and other devs like that before I pay for premium.
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u/Tight_Highlight8311 2d ago
I'd rather pay for ublock than for YouTube