I have had premium family since it was red or something. It is my last streaming sub if you don’t count nebula which I never use. I still need to use smarttube and Firefox+ublock and various extensions as modern YouTube is a disaster.
I want to send google a message that here is someone prepared to pay money for a decent experience but they don’t give a shit. Its going to be very tough to win me back as a customer when I go which won’t be much longer.
The reason I’ll never pay Google a subscription fee is because they still spy on you and make money off your data even if you pay them.
The deal is supposed to be either:
- I get your service for free, you spy on me and sell ads to cover the cost of the service
OR
- I pay for your service, you will NOT show me ads or sell my data
Any service that doesn’t fall into one of those two categories can GTFO.
They don’t give a fuck as long as you’re still paying them lol.
I would be so happy to drop youtube, which is one of my last subscriptions. A nice bonus would be to get my “smart” TV off the internet. But I feel like everytime androidTV or whatever comes up, I get confused as to whether there is a decent solution. What hardware do people use? My RaspberryPI 3 does not seem sufficient, even though people seem to say otherwise. Is Kodi still fine? What I need is something that just works, I can’t have my TV going down like all my other funny selfhosted business. The wellbeing of my entire household relies on that.
And then the youtube alternatives: There are so many words floating around and I never know what to do. I do have a server and would be able to get into my network via tailscale, so this would not be an issue. Invidious? That would mean I don’t have to deal with the music either 🤔
The only way to stop price increase is unsubscribing, Google need to know it’s a loss, not a win.
People pay for YouTube premium?!?!
I do for years and I think it’s great value
I get the same thing for free, so it’s actually a terrible value for you.
I don’t mind content creators getting paid for their work. That’s part of the value of paying.
You don’t get that value.
I contribute directly to those who I can, with patreon. I don’t watch advertisements, and I try not to give money to corporations.
For me it was debating what music service I wanted to pay for and I decided ad-free YouTube without having to get around anything was a fine bonus. And it was a decent trade to my brother and cousin when I was in their HBO and Netflix families. But I’m not going to say it’s “great” or anything. In fact if they ever cut my brother or cousin from my family plan (we’ve moved around the U.S. since I first got it,) I’m dropping it.
We just had news about Bilibili going global, and their reaction is to increase prices even further?
It wasn’t really worth it before, now it’s even less worth it?
Revanced works perfectly fine on Android and on desktop I use an adblocker.
What exactly does revanced do to what programs? The website is no help.
Repackages and patches an older version of the Android ytb app as well as some other apps. The patches do different things for different apps (usually remove ads).
So just downloaded revanced should i download all the patches or select through?
Or just do some looking online and work it out from that for what i want?
Read the documentation. Just selected is enough, just make sure you have sponsor block selected. I don’t remember if it is selected by default.
YouTube morphed
This is the way
Does Adblock work for YouTube?
uBlock on Firefox
You don’t even need Revanced. Just use Firefox on both.
I like Revanced. I can listen to stuff even while the screen is locked and have sponsor block and other addons if I want. I think half the time I spend on my phone is watching Youtube and it’s heaps better than Firefox with an adblocker on Android.
I have yt premium and still use revanced. Sponsor block is so goated
Holy shit $16 / mo?? Did I see that right?? Wow. Just last year my partner and I really considered getting premium cuz we have some YouTubers we’ve been watching for like a decade. But ultimately decided against it cuz it was like $8.99 / mo.
That sub is already alotted to Netflix, for the ads version too.
Does this also include YouTube music subscriptions?
Time to quit, just unregistered
Keep paying guys, someones gotta do it. Thank you for your service. Keeps YouTube available for the rest of us who will never, ever pay a greedy, evil fucking company like Google.
One day there will be only 10 people left paying 1million dollar a month
In my country, it’s $1.5. So I am paying so that you guys can get videos for free.
Here it’s appearently $17.81 now… Not exactly value!
Consider these open-source front-ends:
No ads, no tracking, very customizable. You can import subscriptions, but signing in isn’t supported except in FreeTube Mobile. Also these apps sometimes don’t work for a few days whenever YT changes its back-end.
Newpipe is another option
Newpipe and Grayjay are great options!
NewPipe is shite compared to Morphe.
At least its fully foss, doesnt requir an account, no microG shit, can downlload(actually download) videos, forks have sponsord block, doesnt take up 1.5GB,
New pipe says it’s dipping out after the Google changes no?
Lets see what happens
Thank you! I have ad block for PC but am forced to use mobile for awhile and was dreading the incessant ads on mobile.
I guess it’s not too great of a coincidence though; YouTube is always making the platform worse, so these recommendations are flying around pretty often.
If you’re on iOS, check out Orion browser—it can install firefox extensions, including ublock. I’m pretty sure there are ways to get this done on Android, too, but I’m not familiar with them. I haven’t seen an ad on youtube in years, on desktop or mobile.
I use this for Android. https://github.com/A-EDev/Flow/
LOL.
Be a pirate
Then pay and get tracked
your using the internet you are getting tracked.
Well im pretty much confident it’s not that much for me
if you have an active internet connection your data is being tracked.
Then don’t
DO WHAT YOU WANT CAUSE A PIRATE IS FREE!
I’m free
YARR HARR Fiddle dee dee, being a pirate is alright to be!
I stopped paying when they started to openly support Israel. I’m fine with paying a service to maintain itself and Youtube is storing a LOT of high quality video, but giving away millions worth of support to a genocidal state is not something a streaming service’s operating costs should include sooooo fuck ‘em. Ads suck, but I can live with them.
Ads suck, but I can live with them.
I was fully onboard with everything you said until this. It pretty much defeats the point of a boycott to continue using the service in a way that makes them profit.