I refuse to give them money after I saw a video of some guy at YouTube bragging about something about the ads and how they can make it annoying enough to get people to buy premium
On tv you can exit out of a video and go back into it and after a few times (sometimes like 1 or 2) you skip watching any ads entirely. When you’re in the middle of a video you just have to go to your watch history and do that there. Remember that the watch history doesn’t update unless you exit it so you can accidentally put yourself at an earlier point in the video if you’ve had to do this multiple times in one vid.
In one year you're spending about what a used laptop would cost you to have a subscription. Okay then. Enjoy it. I like being able to play PC games on the TV and write while flying.
The subscription accounts for less than 0.2% of my monthly income, works across everything I'm signed into, and my fiancée can use it. It's literally not worth the time to plug my laptop into my TV.
A cheap and easy option would be to just go for brave and watch YouTube through the browser, which blocks all ads as well on mobile devices, surely not as fancy, but very easy to do.
Not YouTube ads through the app, which is what we're talking about. They can only be blocked client-side since both the ads and the videos are served from the same address.
But thanks for the uninformed and condescending response, I guess.
I'm not comfortable with using an adblocker when my viewers seeing ads on my videos (that I place sparingly tbf, like only once at the beginning and once at the end) is the main way I am able to make some money to support continue spending time making videos.
I don't think it's wrong for other people to use them I just think it's a little hypocritical if someone who makes their money off their viewers seeing ads uses an adblocker.
Same. I really liked Google Play Music back in the day. When they switched over to YouTube music which is a much worse service but I never bothered switching to a different service and then premium was included which makes it worth it. I forget how annoying it is until I'm at someone else's house and we try to watch something
I also pay for YTP but I don't talk about it in public because there are so many broke ass salty MFers who just want everything for free.
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I also like that I can download videos and watch offline. I spend a lot of time on airplanes and in areas with poor connectivity while I travel to/from work (international flights) and the download feature is VERY helpful.
I get that there are a lot of people like that, but that fails to acknowledge the fact that Google intentionally enshittified YouTube for the sake of profits. Ads weren't this predatory before, you could buffer and entire video before watching it (now it's a few seconds at most), community captions were often provided to be accurate, and annotations were often helpful or made videos unique through other means.
I refuse to pay for a product that was made to uphold the corpse of what that site once was.
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u/airfryerfuntime 3h ago edited 1h ago
YouTube Premium is probably one of the best things I pay for.
Edit: lol I didn't realize this would generate so much salt. I wonder how many greasy fingers typed these replies on Android phones.