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Mildly Infuriating

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago

That's not an ad. That's a high quality premium product reminder. To remove these reminders please subscribe to YouTube Premium Plus.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ublock on Firefox> premium, they will always try to advertise even if you pay unfortunately

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This even works on my tablet, even after they blocked vanced from playing videos.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

idk if you have heard but there is revanced

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Unfortunately, youtube is mostly a TV thing for me. Very hard to ad block on smart tvs

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

literally what you are asking for, you can download it from github

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Or you can use Downloader if you use an Amazon TV device. (Screw you Google for removing Downloader)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

yeah that was what i was refering to, downloader is back on the play store though

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Smarttube next is for Android TV. Works very well. Sometimes you do need to update (can be done in-app) after YouTube decides to break third party apps.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As someone who uses and really enjoys Youtube Premium this upsets me. Feels very counter-to what is agreed on purchase:

I wonder if it's possible to file a complaint as false advertisement. As part of the subscription it even says in the FAQ "ad-free" which this is definitely not. I'm not a lawyer though and this is not legal advice.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This reminds me of the "Ad free" tier of Paramount Plus. There were unskippable ads for other paramount shows. And the 5 second bumper counted as an ad and was unskippable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I can't explain how much this pisses me off

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I'm not a lawyer but anyone with a brain cell would agree this is false advertising at least, possibly breach of contract depending on what the TOS says.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If they actually continue on their path of ensuring no ad blockers work on YouTube, I will simply cease watching it completely. I really hate how aggressive advertisement became over the years. I didn't mind non-gore (because some ads shown really gruesome health issues) and non-porn side panels which didn't animate. Hell, sometimes I'd click if they had what would interest me. There is absolute zero chance I will buy anything which bothers me. And I won't let it waste the time of my life.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like the game grumps and Lex Fridman. The documentaries are cool, but I have to watch them in a different container or YouTube will start feeding me 30 minute ads or rants that sound reasonable but are super bigoted and flawed when you actually think about it

Reddit meant more to me than anything else I do online, and I committed to leaving it behind even before I found Lemmy... YouTube is barely worth it even without the ads. And I've got a whole fediverse of video content to investigate

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

One of my oldest friends has recently started turning to the dark side, his PC died and he's run out of new shows to watch... so started watching stuff on YouTube via the suggestions.

It started off as debates between men and women... I warned him that it was going to suggest him more and more extreme stuff and the algo will walk him further to the right. Now he's quoting Andrew Tate, watching videos with conspiracies about great reset, ranting about trans people, ugh. When he said "the media is shoving trans in our face, all these trans personalities" I asked him to list these trans personalities, he couldn't list one. He's just spewing the rhetoric YT fed him. Very sad, he's not the only one being infected by this shit.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

What you thought that paying money would take away the ads?! (Laughs in profit)

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People love to shit on yt premium but it's single handedly the best value I've ever gotten out of a service. And I'm okay with financially supporting a service that I use a lot.

This is upsetting, though. I don't watch a ton on tv, but when I have I've never seen an ad like this pop up. I'll be watching out for them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah, i basically have youtube on throughout the day so it's a good "investment" for me. but yeah, the deal is, i pay them, they don't show me ads (and sponsorblock does the rest) so this is quite wild.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yep. This is the first legitimate "YouTube premium sucks" I've seen because it's not holding up their end of the transaction.

I haven't seen this happen to me yet and I use YouTube on my PC, my phone, and my TV via Alexa.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is why I would not want to pay a subscription to YouTube. I don't trust that they would ever truely work out all the ads

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

I've had Premium since it was called Red (got it through Google Music) and never see ads. Would be upset if I was OP, but haven't experienced that issue myself.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

SmartTube - if you've got an Android streaming box (like an NVIDIA Shield Pro, for example), sideload it. You'll thank me later.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

That's why I canceled Premium. I was still getting ads AND Google still used trackers. AND content creators get next to no money from it...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So were at the point where we are paying for an experience with ads AND invasive trackers and personal data mining + psychological profiling just to watch videos? What the fuck, thats distopian AF.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

nothing mild about this. this is straight enraging. I hate youtube.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

All that paying does is prove you’ll pay whatever they want. Just like a blackmailer, it’s never enough. They always escalate in their attempts to extract β€œvalue”.

It’s the same damn story, time after time. β€œOh, we put a few ads to cover expenses - it’ll be limited, we promise.” 3 months later: β€œWe have a premium plan that hides ads.” Another 3 months: β€œWe now have informational banners on premium for our own content. Since it’s our own, it’s totally not an ad!”

Then just: β€œPay us a monthly rate and get served ads.”

It’s like fucking clockwork with these ghouls.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wait people actually pay for that shit πŸ€”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Via VPN in India. Costs about 1$ per month.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes and it worth it not to see garbage ads.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Do you have a Chromecast? Install "smarttube" instead. It strips out all ads, and even has sponsor block built in so it skips sponsor stuff in video.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

If they start inserting ads in videos I’m watching even though I literally pay them not to, I’ll be more than just mildly infuriated.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

And this is why I just use an ad free YouTube client, literally provides better features for free

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think they just got a cease and desist from Google yesterday.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Pretty typical for YouTube honestly, they'd try and justify it as saying it's not an "as" it's an "experience highlight" or something.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Hey, another person who likes robot combat

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

More like very infuriating, I pay for premium too, if I see ads I’ll be pissed!

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