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Some YouTube Premium subscribers complain of seeing ads (www.androidheadlines.com)
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[–] 159 points 2 years ago* (23 children)

If this goes live, I'm out. YT premium is my most expensive subscription, but I watch enough YouTube that I'm OK with it, especially considering that it supports creators more than ad viewers. If I still get ads? Nah dawg. I'll divy up that money amongst patreons or whatever, and install add blockers.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (22 children)

    If your main reason for paying premium is for ad blocking, I’d suggest just cancelling it now and using ad blockers. If you want to support creators, I’d say that it’s better to cancel and subscribe to a few patreons - I’d pick some of the smaller creators you like, to spread some of that support around a bit.

    If you use iOS devices for watching YouTube, look into side-loading uYou+, it’s basically an edited YouTube app that removes most of the ads. You can stream from your phone to the apple TV, too, also without ads.

    Not sure what the android equivalent is, but someone else will know - hopefully they will share in the comments also.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Why don’t you just cancel it now and use ad blockers?

    Joel explains this in the second sentence: "I’m OK with it, especially considering that it supports creators more than ad viewers"

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Reasonable advice, but I'd note that I pay for premium and patreon specifically because I can only afford patreon for a few creators. I'd rather pay everyone I watch. While YouTube isn't perfect, I like the service enough that I don't mind paying for it.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Yeah, of course - you should do what you think is best. I was thinking that if everyone cancels their YT Premium and signs up for a few Patreons, distributed as randomly as possible (which is why I said to go for the smaller creators) then overall creators would get more money, while we’d still be paying less. Everyone wins - except Google, but fuck Google!

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I use it because it came with Play Music, now YouTube Music. I'll just switch to Spotify if I see them.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    I stopped using streaming platforms personally and just went back to pirating music. Personally I don’t want to support Spotify because they continue to support far-right ideology with their podcasts, but that’s a completely personal decision.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Wait... You can sideload on ios? Since when?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

    You can only aideload 2 apps (alt store is one of them)

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I'm trying to imagine voluntarily buying a device that all but prohibits you from choosing the software you run on it. A limit of 2-3 apps, which have to be re-signed weekly by a desktop server, to me that doesn't count as "supporting sideloading." Maybe technically. What a joke.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    But that version of alt store does not support installing uyouplus. At least I have not been able to add the repo.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    not on US devices without jailbreaking, but I think you can on EU devices.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You can on any iOS device without jailbreaking. Look into AltStore or Sidestore. The caveat is that you can only sign 3 apps at a time, and must resign these apps every week - which is done over your WiFi to a PC running AltStore server.

    If you have a $99/year Apple developer account, you can use AltStore to sign as many apps as you like, and you only need to resign once per year.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    Since at least a couple of years ago - it requires a bit of jumping through hoops, but it’s 100% worth it to get ad-free YouTube on iPhone!

    You can do it in any country as far as I know, it’s not EU-only.

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