Following the price hike, the basic YouTube Premium individual plan has increased by $2 per month, from $13.99 to $15.99. The Premium family plan, which allows up...
  • Hogrider@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    I ended my Premium subscription about six months ago and instead got a VPN set to Albania. Ads? Gone. I live fucking with the google’s data harvesting operations

        • W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3 months

          The ones who scream the loudest about this never have a solution for Apple devices and it’s annoying.

          They exist; people just don’t take the time to figure it out and give an answer.

          As much as I disagree with their practices, Brave browser on iOS will block YT ads.

          • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zipEnglish
            3 months

            The ones who scream the loudest about this never have a solution for Apple devices and it’s annoying.

            We saw Apple’s closed ecosystem as the trap that it is, and avoided it. Can’t really help you if you’re still inside the cage.

            You’re also missing out on a bunch of other cool shit, honestly.

            But I get it, it is convenient. I’m not mad. I just also can’t help you fly free until you leave the cage.

  • 𝔼𝕩𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕒@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    Gonna catch a lot of “get with the times” but an ad blocker and watching YouTube in browser on my phone - I’ve never seen the value of needing Premium to do adblocking or a whole ass app like Vanced. Maybe sponsorblock for more but like overall, my impression has always been YouTube Premium is a joke of a service that can never offer anything more than adblocking/sponsor block already just does from a browser on my phone.

    • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
      3 months

      In addition to removing ads in YouTube, it also gives ad-free YouTube Music (which fucking sucks because it always plays the video version of the audio). But honestly, the biggest problem is the app itself shoving shorts down your throat and lacking a bunch of features that third-party clients have. And even if you pay to remove ads from YouTube, you can’t pay to remove ads from the videos themselves. You can only do that with sponsorblock, which YouTube could totally just adopt if they wanted but as is, you have to use third part apps anyway.

      • IronKrill@lemmy.caEnglish
        3 months

        (which fucking sucks because it always plays the video version of the audio).

        I disabled them in settings a couple of years ago and have not had issues since.

        • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
          3 months

          That switch does not work. It turns off the videos but still plays the video versions, which is even worse. I’m not sure it even knows the difference.

  • Bipauler@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3 months

    I pretty much only use it for music, and most of the extensions have still gotten me by. At least long enough to rip the song to my hard drive for offline use. Fuck $16 a month. That’s ridiculous. For $16 I could get an album or two every month and not have to worry about some buffering bullshit. After a year, not only would I be supporting the artists directly and avoiding paying paying a scummy company, I’d actually have some discographies built up to permanently show for it. They’re just inadvertently trying to support people sailing the high seas. So irritating…

    • ikt@aussie.zoneEnglish
      3 months

      For $16 I could get an album or two every month and not have to worry about some buffering bullshit

      So why don’t you do that… ?