• Black616Angel
    178·
    2 months ago

    Imagine paying money to see 2 fucking ads before a video.

    • skittle07crusher@sh.itjust.works
      28·
      2 months ago

      As another reply said already

      Imagine cable tv! (in the US at least, and, it seems, Canada, too)

      It is so absurd until you realize people already accepted that shit… wtf!!!

      • Black616Angel
        81·
        2 months ago

        Yes, but this is german and in Germany most TV is free with ads or paid without ads.

        • Anivia@feddit.org
          81·
          2 months ago

          No, most TV in Germany is either paid and with ads (ARD, ZDF, or private stations with HD+) , or free and with even more ads (RTL, Pro7 etc. in SD resolution). Paid TV without ads (Sky) is only used by a small minority

          And the few ad supported stations that are free are only free if you use Satellite TV, half of Germany still uses cable TV and has to pay a monthly fee to Vodafone for those, in addition to our broadcasting fees that everyone has to pay

          Source: Am German

          • Black616Angel
            1·
            2 months ago

            Okay, it is possible to get them for free (except the ÖR which I forgot, because the fee is mandatory for each household) which is what I meant but yes, there are lots of ads, but american TV also has I would say as many ads.

            Source: also German

    • Resonosity@lemmy.world
      61·
      2 months ago

      Imagine not using NewPipe, which has no ads and can play music in the background while you use other apps simultaneously (Samsung only feature I’ve heard, but still)

    • greencactus@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 month ago

      Or imagine installing uBlock Origin and not seeing ads at all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      YouTube really promoted uBlock more than uBlock could even promote itself

    • astanix@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7018·
      2 months ago

      My wife uses a TV to watch YouTube, My kid uses a phone, My other kid uses a tablet.

      Saying just use ad block isn’t feasible for everyone.

      • Lichtblitz
        571·
        2 months ago

        If you use something Android based for watching YouTube on the TV (some TVs, fireTV stick, etc.), you can: https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube?tab=readme-ov-file

        I haven’t watched a single Ad on YouTube on TV (SmartTube), mobile (ReVanced), or PC (Firefox + uBlock origin) since it became unbearable… five years ago or so?

          • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
            3·
            2 months ago

            +1 for Vinegar. My only real complaint is that I use Firefox as a daily driver, and Vinegar only works with Safari. Even though Firefox is using the Safari engine under the hood on iOS, (because Apple doesn’t allow third party browser engines like Firefox’s Gecko, and forces everyone to use WebKit instead,) it doesn’t support Safari extensions.

            I’m fine with switching to Safari to watch YouTube… But since Firefox is my default browser, YouTube links automatically open in Firefox. There isn’t a way to specify that I want everything except YouTube to open in my default browser.

            • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
              1·
              2 months ago

              I feel you! Firefox Focus is my daily driver, but occasionally its adblocking doesn’t work on YouTube so I have to manually open it in Safari :c

      • Funkwonker@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        17·
        2 months ago

        SmartTube for TV and ReVanced/uYouPlus for Andriod/IOS devices. SmartTube can be tricky to set up depending on the TV, but the mobile apps are relatively simple to get working.

        • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 months ago

          There is no ReVanced or uYouPlus for iOS. You have to sideload that shit, cuz YouTube is too far up Apple’s ass for them to allow something like that on the App Store.

          Ironically, they allow Vinegar. But only because it’s a Safari extension (and Apple likes when people use Safari more than they like the money from YouTube.)

          • scarilog@lemmy.world
            2·
            2 months ago

            You have to sideload that shit

            That’s a price you pay when you buy apple. Thankfully it is still an option, just takes a bit more time and effort than on android.

      • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
        71·
        2 months ago

        On a TV use SmartTube. On QN Android device (phone or tablet) use LibreTube (or InnerTune for music)

        • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
          238·
          2 months ago

          And then you’re stuck constantly reminding every family member which app to use on which device when they come to you because they’re getting ads or something isn’t working right.

          For a single power use that’s fine, for a family with kids, it’s nearly impossible without going crazy and killing them.

    • unexposedhazard
      278·
      2 months ago

      Do creator even get any real amount of money from the money collected through premium?

      Buying premium seems like the dumbest shit imaginable to me.

      • Natanael@slrpnk.net
        46·
        2 months ago

        They do, and based on reported stats it gets them more per viewer. No idea if anybody’s audited those stats though

        • NateSwift@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          22·
          2 months ago

          Not sure about currently but at least a year or two ago creators could see the split of premium views & income vs free views and income and premium views always paid out more

          • elgordino@fedia.io
            91·
            2 months ago

            They still can. Whether premium or ad supported views pays more depends on the channel and the value of the adverts that are streamed on it. For channels / topics that advertisers are keen to appear on the ad supported views pay more, for more niche interests the premium views pay more.

      • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
        61·
        2 months ago

        Use LibreTube or InnerTune, no need to pay. I’ve heard good things about SmartTube too

  • JigglySackles@lemmy.world
    71·
    2 months ago

    And this is why i,won’t start paying them money. They will never be content and will just keep pushing ads further and further.

  • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
    55·
    2 months ago

    I feel like you don’t fully understand that the line can go up. At the expense of everything…

  • riodoro1@lemmy.world
    42·
    2 months ago

    The second I get an ad on premium I cancel my subscription. Blocking ads on apple tv wasn’t easy, but Ill find a way

    • drake@lemmy.sdf.org
      2·
      2 months ago

      Sideload the uYou+Extras app on your iPhone and then just use AirPlay to watch youtube videos on apple TV. Gets around adverts 99% of the time. Sometimes one will slip through, just close the video and reopen it and it’ll not have an advert anymore.

  • dragonlobster@programming.dev
    343·
    2 months ago
    • Web: Firefox + uBlock Origin
    • Mobile (Android only): Grayjay
    • TV (Android): Smarttube
    • iPhone/iPad: Brave Browser

    Enjoy

      • miltsi@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        At least for me it doesn’t keep autoplaying videos/going to next video on Youtube (probably a setting I could change somewhere). Grayjay is pretty handy for other media platforms as well.

      • dragonlobster@programming.dev
        1·
        2 months ago

        You can, but I like using an app, because for example I can use pip with grayjay (watch video while doing something else), I’m not sure if that is possible with firefox + ublock

    • BreadOven@lemmy.world
      10·
      2 months ago

      Newpipe on android also works. Also viewing YouTube via the browser with uBlock origin on mobile works.

    • Mwa@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      A more bigger list:

      Web: Firefox (or any firefox fork on apple tech you can use safari + adguard) with Ublock origin + libreredirect. The yt frontend sites: Invidious,Piped(broken at this time),Poketube (my personal favorite)

      Mobile (Android and Ios): Yattee(The only ios client, broken can only stream local downloaded content or from Poketube servers.),Clipious (invidious client built with flutter),Libretube(Piped,broken at this time),Grayjay (source available not strictly youtube client),Vlc media player (Ios and android not strictly a yt client it can play downloaded videos or stream from poketube servers),Tubular(Newpipe with sponsor block and return youtube dislike not strictly a yt client you can use regular newpipe aswell.),Freetube(unofficial).

      PC(Linux,Windows and Macos): Plasmatube, (fits well with kde plasma a little to quiet),QTube(Yt client built with qt,Embeds yts site),Freetube (if your fine with Electron which is using chromium),Vlc media player (said above).

        • Mwa@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          It is unusable for me aswell(I tried it on my moms iphone), I changed the reply so that people know.

          • ddh@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            I want Yattee to succeed. When I could get it to work (like 5% of the time), it was refreshing that I was searching for and finding my own videos, not just being distracted by and fed the YouTube algorithm.

      • 3 dogs in a trenchcoat@slrpnk.netEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Additionally, there’s freetube for android, newpipe, tubular (newpipe with sponsorblock), and safari + adguard

        also grayjay is source available rather than open source

        • Mwa@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          Thanks for correcting me and adding more frontends, I just out some on top of my mind.

    • Druid@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      My premium is about to run out, and I had solutions for both my TV and phone via my TV’s homebrew store and ReVanced. Didn’t know that Brave just completely shut down ads on iPad, though. Amazing tip, thanks a bunch!

  • Tuxman@sh.itjust.works
    252·
    2 months ago

    If it’s true and I get ads on my Premium (which… to be fair I’m not paying full price anyway 😅), it may be the last push I needed to finally start reading books again…

    • spicystraw@lemmy.world
      12·
      2 months ago

      Hey, so I canceled my YouTube Premium subscription a couple of months back and decided to pick up reading instead. It’s a different kind of entertainment, but I’m actually really enjoying it. I’ve been finding some really great books, and I’m finding it just as hard to put them down as I used to find it hard to stop binge-watching my favorite channels.

      • Tuxman@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        1 month ago

        I did it! Canceled Premium!

        I thought maybe to change it to a sub to Nebula or something… but then I realized it’d be like trading heavy cigarette smoking for heavy vape smoking.

        Now begins the « ween the brain off overstimulation » phase 😅