tbf, their sponsors don't know they're being skipped.

I've never had revanced last more than a week. Bad luck i suspect. Newpipe->greyjay->brave

Three seperate active dev teams fighting off the bastards.

I don't want to use brave, but it's never been down for me, so it's weapon of last resort.

I am a bit worried that, with Google's upcoming changes, they'll be a walled garden within a year.

Unwatched for YouTube on Apple devices.

Also grayjay, new pipe on android

vacuum tube for smart TV.

There is so many project to just get rid of YouTube's ads

well, doubling the minimum watches to pay people blocking ad blockers harder and halfing the rates at which they're getting paid does fit the text they gave

Yeah what a fucking joke. The one and only feature they're selling (especially since they bailed on original content like 2 years after they started) is ad-free viewing. You need a price hike every 18 months to ensure the "don't show this guy ads" line in my profile config stays set to True? Fuck off.

And the fucked up thing is that's not across the board, for example I've been using family premium since it basically came out and my users are located all over the place. Two of which have never even been to my place, and live 4-6 hours away.

It's shitty, because I wish everyone could have the experience I have had with it.

I think PeerTube should be for hobby purposes. I mean, here's where I am coming from. I am from a period of the internet, where you were not meant to be e-famous. I still at times, believe this. Look at what happened when the idea of the tiniest bit of fame and success people allow to get to their heads when they realize that they can just make videos and profit off of them.

Nebula.tv has been pretty good. I'm considering the lifetime subscription.

I wish PeerTube worked. For a while I tried just leaving in running on the theory that it might help out, but it didn't seem to do anything. Not sure if I'm doing it wrong?

Even though it's no longer tractable for the casual hobbyist (me) to run a node, Invidious is still usable thanks to absolutely heroic effort by the ~4 organizations still willing and able to invest the crazy infrastructure needed to prevent GOOG from blocking them.

https://docs.invidious.io/instances/

getting what I pay for

GOOG and all its affiliated advertisers -- essentially, every corporation on this planet -- now knows not only all your browsing and watching habits, but also that you are a likely good return on investment for more mining, more fine-grained targeting, more scrutiny.

Sure but it's the opportunism and greed that grates. They pay literally zero for the overwhelming majority of their content, and very little for the rest.

If you Writer-Produce-Star in a TV show that gets 2 million viewers on NBC or ABC, you're well into the five figures per episode in individual take-home pay, maybe even six. YouTube on the other hand you might just about hit $10,000 for 2M views depending on niche, but they cover zero of your expenses. If you've got more than one person working on making that show, or you had any expenses attached to it, you're pretty much screwed.

Google could VERY easily keep turning a profit on the old price, but shareholders demand infinite unending growth.

If I'm understanding you, Google got ~ $500 out of you over the course of 4-ish years? Say it ain't so!

PEOPLE! Install Firefox, Waterfox, any *fox and install ublock origin on your mobile devices RIGHT NOW!! Is there some feature that you can't use in a mobile browser that these apps do and I'm just too old to understand?

I accept that if I block adverts in add supported content that's a problem. The creators get a cut of the money (way more than ads get them!) and accept most goes to Google because Youtube is hella expensive to run.

... if it gets ridiculously expensive then I will find somewhere else. I keep meaning to try Nebula....