adblocking?
Thanks for the reminder, just canceled my 2-month free trial with a few days to spare.
What’s the point of YouTube premium again? uBlock Origin works on laptops, tablets, and phones. Smart Tube works on TVs.
Is there some live sports thing that it’s bundled with or something?
How do you think the unthinkable? With an ithberg.
Why do people pay for this? Are there any real advantages?
Are there any real advantages?
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No 5 seconds forced delay when using ad blockers
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Higher bitrates available
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Ad blockers don’t work on Chromecast, other solutions don’t offer easy casting from the phone app
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Better value than audio only services like Spotify
Revanced never offered above 1080p for me.
Morphe is generally offering 1440 and 2160, if available.
Videos that stop at 1080p often have an increased bitrate option with Premium (no idea how YT decides when to offer it). 1440p and 4k are available to all without Premium.
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They believe creator should be paid. That’s about it.
Theoretically it lets you skip the occasions when Noutube/[insert youtube front end]/uBlock origin has issues blocking youtube ads, but that’s rare nowadays.
Speaking for everyone?
I pay because I use yt music and my PRIMARY tv watching is YT, and I use one or the other all day long.
YT has no ads, and I can skip with the press of a button most creator ads so it’s kinda nice and easy. (Yes I know what sponsor block is and it’s installed on Firefox so one less button press on my pc)
Do I pay YouTube FOR the creators? Nope I pay so I can sign in / watch yt or listen to my music anywhere without jumping through hoops.
I also have / sometimes use grayjay on my phone (and I paid futo for it to support it) I have smart tube next on my Nvidia shield too. My wife/son use it mostly.
I sync yt music to my Garmin watch for running, I run about 20 miles a week so add that to feature I’m paying for.
I downloaded a handful of videos before flying to CA earlier this week, but the flights had WiFi so that didn’t really give me anything special ;)
Can I do all this without paying, sure, but I don’t mind paying for stuff I get value from.
Am I happy about $4/mo increase? Absolutely not, but it’s not gonna break me either. $4/30 is .13c a day.
You can also download videos, for offline playback.
I can do that without paying tho.
Or right I forgot they added officially endorsed piracy and no rights group thought to challenge it. But then again anyone with a web browser can do the same.
Okay, but they are not just paying more for the same service. YouTube Premium is worth more now because it allows you to avoid 90 second unstoppable ads. So don’t say Google doesn’t do anything for its
consumerscustomers!I havent seen an ad on YT in like 2 years and i havent had premium in 3 years
Tell us your secret, sourcerer
Depends on where you’re watching YouTube, but there’s options for most devices. On PC you can use an ad blocker such as uBlock Origin, or a browser with a built in ad blocker like Brave. If you use a phone you can use the mobile browser version (not perfect but pretty serviceable) with a browser that blocks ads. There’s app options for Android such as Greyjay, and modded YouTube apps such as Revanced and Morphe. There’s an app called SmartTube Next that works on most smart TVs. If you have a VPN, setting it to Albania will cause ads to not be displayed on most services even if you’re using the official app and works on every device I’ve tried it on. There’s probably more ways but those are what I’m aware off the top of my head. There is no reason that in 2026 anyone should be seeing ads on YouTube.
Is this a good moment to post a link to revanced?
I thought revanced died?
Vanced died, ReVanced is alive and…there’s internal conflicts but it’s working
Oh no, poor Vance. How his mother holding up? When’s the funeral?
If you want to also make a political statement out of unsubscribing, check out
Adblock has been my wingman for years!
Anyone know how to make YouTube ad free on an LG TV?
Install downloader, then download and install SmartTube.
Maybe because im a millennial but it’s easier than ever to have all the music you could ever want downloaded and playing off local storage, idk i don’t get it i guess it sucks listening to some online playlist and every few songs one is just stuff you’d never choose to listen to.
Funny, I’m a Gen X - and I have everything locally stored and with over 400 gb of music commercial free. -I could just put the whole thing on shuffle for the next few years. Still sometimes listen to ad supported Spotify tho as am used to radio.
400 GB?
That’s some amateur numbers.
I got FLACs bigger than that.
Why is everything being done “quietly” lately?
Announcing price hikes is bad marketing
I’m speaking more of the reporting. It seems like every headline claims something is being done “quietly” now when it was actually announced loud and clear. Take this price hike, for example. I got an email from Google last week telling me the price went up. That wasn’t “quietly”. “Quietly” would be raising the price completely unannounced and hoping no one notices.
The answer is simple: the site that published the article is complete garbage
Because its a covering instead of saying underhanded or sneaky or tricking users.
“I didn’t steal, I was just quietly sneaking money from their wallet!”
Don’t need it if you use the Brave browser.
And if you don’t want spyware on your machine you use AdGuardHome or PiHole
I I received the email today telling me that they were going to raise the price of my family plan by $4 per month. I’m guessing that their costs have not increased in any way, and probably have decreased. I assume it’s just another squeeze tactic from the company that used to not be evil.
Not defending Google, but how many employees do they have? Did they all get raises this year? I bet license deals from the music industry probably went up too. (No proof but assuming)
But I agree 100%, they are without a doubt no longer following “don’t be evil”. But it’s disingenuous to believe they’re annual costs are not increasing along with literally everything else.
I wasn’t being disingenuous and I just validated my assumptions.
The cost of compute per million instructions has continued to decrease. The cost of storage on HDD has also continued to decrease, albeit more slowly. The cost of NAND storage has increased due to the supply crunch that Google helped create. Average pay at Google has gone up 5% over the past two years, but this is offset at least in part by mass layoffs. License fees for music have remained stagnant.
While a lot of those things are arguable one way or another, depending on whose numbers you look at and what specific details you want to focus on, one thing is not. Google’s profits have nearly doubled in the past 3 years. There is no reason for a price increase beyond corporate greed.
I imagine costs have increased (more expensive server components due to ai shortages, more users to stream to, ever-increasing storage for the unthinkable amount of video that gets uploaded to YouTube nonstop). I imagine Google going all in on ai (infinite negative money glitch) costs a lot and they’re trying to cover the costs elsewhere so the investor report doesn’t look so bad and spook stockholders into selling. I’d keep an eye on other Google services to see if their prices also go up over the coming months.
I think its likely the codex price hike, not Ai
Most of their servers are processing and multiencoding with x264/x265, and even if people are moving away from that for av1 they have such a massive platform that they still have to utilize it even when most have moved on
Ill rerespond to this to a link to exactly what im talking about if I remember
That only applies to new contracts from what I heard, not to existing contracts. Google certainly has a long term contract that wouldn’t be affected by the increased royalties for new H.264 contracts.
Oh, come now… You really telling me you think they or any other multi-billion dollar corp won’t frontload the costs and pocket the difference?
Or ‘ease’ the price increase in over a few quarters so that its not met with as harsh of backlash?
tell me about it; I’m paying double for revanced now
