I mean… it definitely will if you turn off your ad blocker.
Yeah, I’ve been on YouTube with ads and if it weren’t for the Skip Ads button I could not tolerate it. Try to watch a 10 minute video and it starts with a 3 minute ad. How is that remotely reasonable?
And people will fight this even harder.
Do they have a way to cut off FreeTube? I just started using it recently.
Not really, unless they start requiring you to log in before you can watch any content.
In theory they can cut off everything, but it takes some more intrusive behavior on your phone. Essentially they can build a layer required to authenticate your phone as unmodified before allowing it to access any content, using a special api.
Hahahahahahahaha get fucked google
it’s all fun and games until youtube builds a wall for unregistered users… ggwp
Time to move to NewPipe and ViMusic?
peertube
SmartTube is quite nice also.
SmartTube on Android TV is a far better experience than the official Youtube app. I love it!
I’d rather pay the creators directly on their Patreon then allow Google to pester me with ads.
They still don’t get it.
“Might get worse without turning of my ad-blocker” still beats “is definitely worse without ad-blocker”.
I’m taking my chances.
Mobile game ads are the worst now. I could not turn ads on and watch with others because its soo bad.
They had a long time to make the ad watching process less painful, or adding actual value to a premium subscription, but they are doing everything to make YouTube worse.
They should allow premium users to use third party YouTube clients using an API, like Reddit before Spez’s war on third party apps.
If the price was like $5 per month and it gave you no ads and 4K steaming it might be worth it. But at the current pricing it just isn’t good value since YouTube doesn’t produce content like other streaming services (and creators still have to rely on sponsorships for their livelihood regardless of whether the viewer is a premium subscriber) that justifies paying the higher prices for the service.
Instead their attack on their customers rather than just making the service valuable enough to pay for makes me never want to give them a cent.
I know right? Executives just never seem to get that you actually need to provide value to have people want to sign up for it. Saying that though, there’s a lot of dumb consumers out there that just pay for it if needed.
I had the paid service until they jacked up the price for no reason at all. The second they announced the price hike for no reason I cancled my sub and have just been using a third party app to watch it on my phone or ublock on firefox
i could maybe start to swallow the actual tech getting worse (just like everything else is lately) but this arrogant, odious attitude they’re putting on lately is so obscene and anti-consumer. it’s like it’s their god-given right to serve us ads and our solemn duty to consume them.
YouTube premium should have built-in sponsorblock. That’s one of the ways that free clients are literally better than the paid service, mostly on mobile. Let me change the theme to different colours, let me show/hide the “shorts” and “create” tabs. In general, just give me the features that YouTube revanced has on the official app.
How could it get worse?
I have premium… Have had it for many years. The service has really gone downhill a lot in the last few months. Lots of stalls, inadequate buffer, and very low bit rates on my very fast and adequate ISP service.
I guarantee it’s a worse experience with ads.
I pay for Youtube premium as a carry-over from Google Music (back when it was called Youtube Red). I let it run because I enjoy the screen off feature when I’m driving. On my desktop uBlock Origin still blocks 340 scripts/trackers even when logged into Premium. They not only want to eye-rape us with ads, but they want to track the fuck out of us across the web.
Imagine being so cocky that you think pirated YouTube videos can’t be a thing.
You can however, almost certainly correctly, predict that most people are not going to care enough to bother pirating YouTube videos, especially given how many people watch YouTube on phones or smart TVs now.
I have a separate app just to watch YouTube through which lets me subscribe and all the rest without an account and without ads and it was Uber easy to install.
I think you underestimate how much pirates and the opposition truly hate google and their practices and the lengths they will go to in order to get the content they want.
“Let’s hook Americans on consumerism and turn them into animals, then we can surprise pikachu when said animals eat our faces”
🤷🏻♂️ I just work here
I think you underestimate how much pirates and the opposition truly hate google and their practices and the lengths they will go to in order to get the content they want.
I think you’re dramatically overestimating how many people actually care about this, or any tech issue, enough to “truly hate Google”. The vast majority of Android users have never sideloaded an app and don’t even know what that means, while obviously that’s not doable on iPhones at all.
It does happen though. For example, in China, people would reupload YouTube videos to the local video platforms (e.g. bilibili) without permission from the video owners.
phones and tv puts the viewing experience in their app in most cases, too, and out of the reach of effective ad blockers.
desktop pc user share on yt has to be pretty low nowadays.
Firefox mobile+uBlock Origin+Video background play fix.
Asian dude and butterfly meme… Is this a premium.
Pirates aren’t most people. Piracy finds a way among pirates.
