Somehow paying for Netflix is fine but god forbid I want to watch a 10 hour loop of the DS9 intro without ads.
Somehow paying for Netflix is fine
I was saying paying for Netflix is not fineIs praying for netflix fine?
Only praying for it to die
how do we have every emote and I can never find any of them
I subscribe to YouTube Music and have since the Play days (R.I.P.). Watching videos without ads is just a perk.
This is basically my stance. Its also one of a very few subs I use, I don’t really care to watch streaming services or to pay for the slightly (maybe?) better other music streaming services.
I still have Premium but could never accept YT music as a former Play user. Why did they end the best music streaming service for this unusable trash?
Spotify is still worse than Play was, but at least it’s good at recommending music. YT music is worse in every regard. Except for smart watch integration maybe.
Play was the best, especially in the early days with the professionally curated (by humans) play lists. I discovered so much new music. AI generated playlists are terrible.
And here I am, getting the same thing and paying nothing because I’ve got uBlock Origin.
Honestly not worth the trouble on mobile
Unless you’re on an iPhone, setting up Revanced takes less than 10 minutes and very rarely breaks anything. If you want to support your YouTube creators, then sure pay for premium, but it baffles me how someone could have the technical prowess to set up a Lemmy account, but then balk at something like this. If anything, mobile might be one of the last frontiers now that they’re starting a war against adblock.
It’s a one click install on Firefox. Sponsorblock is more of a faff but I think it should work these days.
Revanced is a bit harder to set up though, but once you’ve done it you can use the same old APK for months or longer (not indefinitely because Google decided to put an expiry date on versions of Youtube, probably to keep their API support lifetime somewhat sane).
I use adblock on Firefox on my phone. Used to be fun to jailbreak and install my own apps and stuff, just getting lazier as I age I think
Since youtube has been starting to wage war against adblock I decided to try out using freetube and have been enjoying it. It does have some limitations but since its not tied to the algorithm it reminds me of how I used to have to browse youtube in the older days. Also I feel like the up-next option is way more valuable than it is with the algorithm. Instead of being based off of what I watch its like the old method so it might recommend more vids from the creator or channels like the creator.
Instead of stuff that Ive already watched or am already subscribed to, or that one weird thing the algorithm is pushing for no reason that I keep ignoring but it keeps shoving at me.
Discovery requires a little more creativity with searching and for some categories this can get broad, but the result is finding more teeny tiny creators as well which is neat.
I was getting blocked for having uBlock Origin, but how I solved that was to purge the filter lists in the settings and re-download them. Now I can watch again.
Oh yeah that does work as well, but I decided to give the open source front end a try as well and enjoyed the experience enough to keep at it.
YMusic
Yes. I pay for YouTube Music for my six account family and, as a side benefit, we all get ad-free YouTube.
Not YouTube music, YMusic…
I also have No ads, because I use NewPipe. There I can watch all Videos from YouTube, cccBerlin, pearTube and it is also possible to Listen to Music from Bandcamp and Soundcloud.
There’s always one.
How do you run that on a smart tv?
Seriously, this is why I eventually got it. Plus my android vanced stopped working and I didn’t know there was a way to fix it
Look up
ReVanced
I did, but that still only solves mobile and I mostly watch on the TV
For TV SmartTubeNext and you’re all set.
Smartnexttube
Smarttube
Smart tube, or I’ve been told a pi hole works as well. I haven’t bothered with that though, because I don’t like watching YT on TV myself. Out of the two, the pi hole is probably the better option since it works with all your devices.
I don’t. I just plug a pc directly to my tv.
This works fine but the main reason I personally have premium is to support the YouTubers I watch. Adblock gets rid of their revenue while premium pays them MORE than just ads do and now I don’t have to worry about it on any platform.
Premium still gives them hardly anything. Subscribing to their Patreon is better because they get all your money, minus the small fee.
It gives them a loot more than ad watchers though. Especially on longer videos (it’s based on watch time)
True but I can afford premium. I can’t afford every single persons patreon.
I have a YouTube Premium family plan spread between me, my brothers and our mom, only reason why I bother
It’s called uBlock Origin
Doesn’t work on iPad. Kindly share workarounds anyone.
DNS? sideload? Barter for a better tablet? /j
Youtube does not offer Content instead they offer space to publish Videos and have Youtube Music.
The Price they are deamding is too high as if they Produce own Content and Music.
Youtube Premium would only be viable for me if i can be anonymous to buy it and removes age restriction,perma bann for YT Shorts the worst they done.
I cannot give a Company money that it this rotten.
Monopoly of YT is just sad.
Back when it was still called YouTube Red, they actually used to create exclusive content (or at least fund the creator). It was a selling point at the time. Now they just increase the number of ads to make not paying for it hurt more…
Oh yeah didn’t they have a conclusion movie for Smosh about Anthony dying and becoming Ian’s ghost roommate?
Someone needs to find a way to make it cheaper to host videos on a server, because the second you do that second a viable YouTube alternative can show up
JUST USE ADBLOCK???
Or don’t and pay for things you use and enjoy with gratitude and no sense of entitlement.
I pay for it, but it’s insanely cheap in my country. Family plan is like $1.5 a month lol. 5 or 6 users for that convenience is worth it in my eyes. I’d rather do that than make my parents, grandparents have to worry about ad blockers on all their devices.
Family plan in my country is like $4USD. And it provides more than adblock. I can easily download a few hour-long videos to my kid’s tablet for long train rides without futzing with third-party Downloader. I have a pihole in my house and use adblock on every device that supports it, but premium is still worth so much.
Yeah it’s good assuming it’s cheap. In the US, it’s quite a bit more and I don’t think I’d pay that much. These big companies know that charging that kind of money in India will get them nowhere and so even Spotify and Apple Music are super cheap.
Paying for Netflix is not fine
The reductive logic of pirates is astounding. It’s incredible the mental gymnastics required to justify stealing things they have no rights to.
Rightfully so, wtf are you doing dude
adblockers still work, coward!
Tbh, I lose some amount of respect for anyone who mentions they pay for media that is easily accessed through piracy, netflix included
The same can be said even more so about people that refuse to pay for services they use.
Lmao look at this fucking bootlicker
“Im a loser Looke at meeeE!”
edit: looked at your profile and you’re
incarnate, nevermindWhat are you supposed to be? Cringe incarnet?
You sure got me there buddy, I’m so owned!!
It’s so funny how much you lemmitors whine about piracy, considering even Reddit, the biggest corporate bootlicker site, allows piracy talk.
Good god kid you need to leave the house and touch some grass. Your internet circlejerk is giving you brain rot.
Projection detected.
What did I say was cringe?
shut the fuck up paypig
Don’t worry about it, now let’s get that snout back in the trough
piracy is good and fun and based
shilling for the privatization of media, or whatever you’re attempting to do, is weird and the opposite of based
Calling out deadbeats isn’t “shilling”
It’s based, actually. So is stealing from businesses. In fact, if piracy really was the same as stealing, I’d definitely make a point of pirating more often
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In my region YouTube Premium includes YouTube Music and is a dollar or two more than paying for Spotify Premium. I cancelled my Spotify sub and went over to YouTube. Seems like any okay deal to me.
why not just put adblock on spotify and not pay anything?
https://safereddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/17agabx/how_to_get_free_spotify_premiumadblock_in/
I watch it mostly an AppleTV so there is no practical way to ad block it anyway.
I airplay from my phone and that allows adblocking still
You think that’s bad? Mention you use a HP printer sometime. I dare you to try it.
😭
Well owning a HP inkjet is an objectively stupid thing to do.
Thanks for proving my point!
No way, Only Brushes and paint for me. Of course I steal it cause why should I pay for it?
Using an HP printer is like playing Russian Roulette with a ton of loaded bullets. I say this as someone with multiple HP printers.
Trigger warning:
I have an HP inkjet printer attached to my Windows 11 machine playing YouTube Premium in Chrome without an ad blocker.
Edit: it’s a joke, people.
How else are you supposed to print out your favorite videos?
Has HP started blocking ad-blockers? Seriously it wouldn’t surprise me.
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Eh, HP has always worked fine for us. I have two sitting here, actually - one is an all-in-one from ~2009 that we printed our wedding programs on when it was new, and it still works fine, but ink is getting harder to find for it, and we had a scare with the irreplaceable print head a few years ago (I got it working, using HP’s “try this if you’re out of options, but it’s unlikely to work” directions, but we realized it was probably time to consider replacing it).
The other is a few years old and is one of the ones with the subscription service. We’ve had a good experience with it, and I spend less on ink than I did with the old one, but that upsets a LOT of people.
and I spend less on ink than I did with the old one, but that upsets a LOT of people.
I think it’s because you’re part of the minority who’s better off with the subscription. Almost everyone I know needs to print something once or twice a year, and only a few pages at that. That’s also the target market for HP to shove subscriptions down everyone’s throats.
The sad thing is that whether or not the subscription makes sense is simple math. The problem is that HP knows the math doesn’t work out for most people, which is why they ask you three to six times if you want the subscription during initial setup, and why the printers have a sticker over the USB port that will then only work a limited amount of times before you need to go through the wizard.
When you’re printing stuff regularly, the subscription makes a lot of sense. On the other hand, if you’re printing enough for the subscription to be a better option, you may be better off buying a laser printer instead. The upfront cost is higher, but they’re more reliable and often cheaper to refill in the long term.
First, it’s nice to get a reasonable response to my comment. Most of the responses about HP printers are people foaming at the mouth. Even a few here, in a thread meant to be funny, generated some of that.
Yeah, I might go with a laser next time. I’ve read that Brother makes a pretty good laser printer, and I see color models are like $250, which isn’t bad. We’ll see. No major rush right now. I would miss the flatbed scanner; I do use that (maybe as much as the printer) for random things.
Oh…haha…I just went to Brother’s site to look at one, and oh look, there’s a toner subscription service!
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For what it’s worth, all of HP’s business hardware is very good, whether it’s printers or PC systems. It’s just the cheap consumer-oriented products that suck.
Same thing with Dell
That’s my experience as well. Everyone absolutely hates HP laptops, for good reason, but I don’t think I’ve heard many people complain about the ProBook line unless their employees bought them the barebones i3 version.
Same is true with a lot more companies as well. Lenovo makes some terrible plastic waste with allegedly a computer inside, but some great Thinkpads that will last a decade of punishment.
I think there’s a pretty direct correlation between companies that everyone thinks are bad and companies that make cheap models. It’s probably why the general public likes Apple so much; of course you’ll have a great laptop when you spend 1500 dollars on it, they simply don’t make devices cheap enough that you would hate.
Meanwhile Acer is out there with their barely functional laptops containing chips not powerful enough to play Youtube videos yet power hungry enough to overheat, for prices lower than a week’s groceries. I’m sure their top of the line models are pretty good too, if they even make those, but everyone knows them for their cheap hardware.
