The only time I've had an ad on YouTube with premium(on their site) is when I went in to invisible mode.
In my opinion it's absolutely stupid that invisible mode has the capability of detecting that you have an account because it skips the age verification blocker on content-sensitive videos, but it gives ads to people with premium. It's obviously able to see that you have a YouTube account so therefore it should be able to just do the next step of saying okay does this account have premium. The only thing people are asking for was it to not log the videos they're watching but they had to make it some Next Generation NASA level secret hidden profile shit that doesn't actually do anything.
Also it really bugs me that they've added ads for YouTube and beds on discord. If I have my YouTube account linked to my Discord account I should not receive ads on the in bed. It should be able to see my YouTube account via electrons cookie system and be able to link it to an account that has premium.
If I'm paying monthly for a service without ads and I see a single (1) advertisement, I should at least get a month of free subscription because the other party is in breach of contract.
Probably the lower tier of premium that’s being tested in Germany.
https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-premium-lite-returns-3491193/
Huh weird, the only reason to use Premium is to cut out the adverts.
"Would you like to buy Premium?" "Ooh, what do I get?" "YOU GET NOTHING! GOOD DAY SIR!"
Less ads I guess? Idk
If Premium Lite was like described in the article, just ad free YouTube without other features like YouTube Music, but for half the price, then it would actually be a good deal
But since the user is getting ads it seems like something else
The poor-mans-premium. Subpremium. Ingenious.
Fucking called it
The only benefit now, but what if they start to serve 30 non-skippable ads without premium and ONLY 5 with premium, what a deal! Right?
the “lesser evil” strategy is so hot rn
Does lemmy have agedlikewine and agedlikemilk?
Fuck you man! You gave them the idea.
wpggLol that is gold
Imagine paying money to see 2 fucking ads before a video.
You just described Amazon Prime TV
Imagine paying money to watch YouTube.
Imagine not using NewPipe, which has no ads and can play music in the background while you use other apps simultaneously (Samsung only feature I've heard, but still)
I use vanced, but NewPipe is also great.
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Tele license
Ugh, you didn't even pay for Premium Plus?
Bloody peasant...
Firefox with ad blocker? You are wasting your money.
My wife uses a TV to watch YouTube, My kid uses a phone, My other kid uses a tablet.
Saying just use ad block isn't feasible for everyone.
If you use something Android based for watching YouTube on the TV (some TVs, fireTV stick, etc.), you can: https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube?tab=readme-ov-file
I haven't watched a single Ad on YouTube on TV (SmartTube), mobile (ReVanced), or PC (Firefox + uBlock origin) since it became unbearable... five years ago or so?
get youtube revanced for both phone and tablet at least
uBlock origin and Sponsorblock work for me on Firefox Android Beta.
And I don't pay for Spotify or any other music service. Premium yt videos is just a bonus
Do creator even get any real amount of money from the money collected through premium?
Buying premium seems like the dumbest shit imaginable to me.
I have ad blocker on my pc, but pay for youtube premium for the TV app and the youtube music.
Use LibreTube or InnerTune, no need to pay. I've heard good things about SmartTube too
How long until that's just made illegal?
And this is why i,won't start paying them money. They will never be content and will just keep pushing ads further and further.
Yeah the price will increase or ads or both. But it never just stops. It's never enough
The growth must continue!
Even when you've reached complete market saturation...
This is why you get anti-anti-adblock userscripts in tampermonkey inside of your browser and/or the same inside of adguard for windows. Along with an adblocking DNS
Give them an inch and they'll take 1000 miles. No more money for google, ever.
I have premium too once I saw an ad and complained and it turned out to be a bug. I even had engineers reach out with questions when they were fixing the issue.
Maybe that has happened here? They have announced any changes.
The second I get an ad on premium I cancel my subscription. Blocking ads on apple tv wasn’t easy, but Ill find a way
Get rid of the apple TV next if that doesn't let you.
Frying pan (Google) meet the fire (Apple)
Same not paying a dollar if they do that shit. I'd rather become a patron of the channels I like.
Sideload the uYou+Extras app on your iPhone and then just use AirPlay to watch youtube videos on apple TV. Gets around adverts 99% of the time. Sometimes one will slip through, just close the video and reopen it and it’ll not have an advert anymore.
- Web: Firefox + uBlock Origin
- Mobile (Android only): Grayjay
- TV (Android): Smarttube
- iPhone/iPad: Brave Browser
Enjoy
Why not Firefox + uBlock Origin for Android?
You can, but I like using an app, because for example I can use pip with grayjay (watch video while doing something else), I'm not sure if that is possible with firefox + ublock
At least for me it doesn't keep autoplaying videos/going to next video on Youtube (probably a setting I could change somewhere). Grayjay is pretty handy for other media platforms as well.
Newpipe on android also works. Also viewing YouTube via the browser with uBlock origin on mobile works.
Web option also works for mobile.
A more bigger list:
Web: Firefox (or any firefox fork on apple tech you can use safari + adguard) with Ublock origin + libreredirect. The yt frontend sites: Invidious,Piped(broken at this time),Poketube (my personal favorite)
Mobile (Android and Ios): Yattee(The only ios client, broken can only stream local downloaded content or from Poketube servers.),Clipious (invidious client built with flutter),Libretube(Piped,broken at this time),Grayjay (source available not strictly youtube client),Vlc media player (Ios and android not strictly a yt client it can play downloaded videos or stream from poketube servers),Tubular(Newpipe with sponsor block and return youtube dislike not strictly a yt client you can use regular newpipe aswell.),Freetube(unofficial).
PC(Linux,Windows and Macos): Plasmatube, (fits well with kde plasma a little to quiet),QTube(Yt client built with qt,Embeds yts site),Freetube (if your fine with Electron which is using chromium),Vlc media player (said above).
- PC: FreeTube
Also available unofficially for Android.
My premium is about to run out, and I had solutions for both my TV and phone via my TV's homebrew store and ReVanced. Didn't know that Brave just completely shut down ads on iPad, though. Amazing tip, thanks a bunch!
YouTube ads cost about $0.026 (two and a half cents) per 30 seconds of viewing. This is called cpv.
It's not fair that ss a viewer I'm not able to bid on my own to show myself an empty ad slot. I'm looking at the price of premium and it definitely seems like more revenue for YouTube than I'd give them from ads.
I feel like you don't fully understand that the line can go up. At the expense of everything...
Line MUST go up.
Fiduciary duties cut both ways.
these posts are just getting ridiculous. USE. BRAVE. OR. FIREFOX.
I get ads on premium sometimes. I think it's a fluke but def unacceptable
Damn I just have ublock origin, so I never get ads and I don't pay a cent. Hope your premium membership works out for you tho
Is it really a fluke or just boiling the frog slowly?
Oooh, like when the whole purpose of paying for cable television was no ads?
I get ads on premium sometimes. I think it’s a fluke but def unacceptable
That's among the reasons why even with premium an ad blocker is required.
It's a bug with the android app.
I've seen it maybe 3 times in 8ish years on my phone. Never once in the TV app.
How is this a shitpost? Is it a fake screenshot?
YouTube is a shitpost.
For everyone on Android, you can just patch the youtube app using ReVanced, which will remove ads, add sponsorblock, allow you to hide shorts and the "People also watched" sections. It can be pretty tricky to patch if you don't know what you're doing so feel free to tell me if you run into any issues.
If you don't care about the algorithm and your feed, you can get the third-party client NewPipe, it's FOSS
but sometimes crashes while reading some videosIt does not seem to crash anymore, so good thing!Pick one!
I don't think I've ever had NP crash. What do you mean by "some videos"?
Strange, I've had a video that crashed newpipe every time but now it seems to play fine. Maybe because it was a "Coming soon" video? Anyways it seems like it works fine now, I also had a bug where leaving the app would crash the app instead of doing background play but I also can't get it to occur again. I'll edit my original comment.
I use gray Jay instead, it has become really good the last wave of updates. Wife is on revanced, I'll change her over if gray jay adds shorts.
There is still a few paper cut issues with it, but over all I prefer gray jay over the official YouTube app.
Well, thanks for sharing! The more options the better!
If it’s true and I get ads on my Premium (which.. to be fair I’m not paying full price anyway 😅), it may be the last push I needed to finally start reading books again..
Hey, so I canceled my YouTube Premium subscription a couple of months back and decided to pick up reading instead. It's a different kind of entertainment, but I'm actually really enjoying it. I've been finding some really great books, and I'm finding it just as hard to put them down as I used to find it hard to stop binge-watching my favorite channels.
Nothing will ever be the push you are looking for
It's probably a bug. And to excuse the devs at Youtube, this is the first and only Premium client.
Is it really a bug or is it just boiling the frog slowly?
Check if you still have premium?
That's what the circled logo in the top left is for
I know, but maybe it's related to:
If you haven't "accepted" the new prices, maybe you get this half-assed Premium.
What ads? (Firefox and adblocker)
Yep.. although.. Lately my TV PC’s CPU has been groaning under the weight of all the Firefox addons required to make YouTube usable lol.
Less is sometimes more honestly. Its likely you've got so much running that they're fighting each other. See if you've got overlapping features and remove as many as possible while still keeping the same functionality.
A few years ago I got this experience on mobile and posted about it on r/assholedesign, but it was autoremoved as a banned repost even though I didn't see anything like it. Yet another ban happy subreddit, I'm glad to be out of that place. This is truly awful though, and why I'm happy to use revanced.
That's why i never bought YouTube premium
Seeing ads in premium is ridiclous, For fuck sake!
"This is why I never bought YouTube premium"
Points out very recent issue with YouTube premium
The implication being they never bought premium because this seemed inevitable.
I thought they didn't target children with their ads. Did I imagine that or is a barbie a product aimed at adults in Germany?
That was something that gets discussed now and then in politics but no. We have a lot of ads targeted to children.
Those are some preem ads, choom.
These ads are preem, choom
Just keep jacking up the ad-free tier price level.
lol here we are, just after a few weeks when people were defending how yt premium was the best subscription plan ever on Lemmy. people deserve to be scammed like this tbh
Books don't have intrusive ads. Stop consuming YouTube slop.
I am very intelligent
I've seen books with ads for books in the middle.
It's not even a new thing: https://lithub.com/the-time-terry-pratchetts-german-publisher-inserted-a-soup-ad-into-his-novel/
Bullshit. I've read books with obvious ads in them.
Is this look like a Slop?
I mean, kinda, yeah. But that's okay: Most books are slop, too. 90% of everything is slop.
They can have product placement
Klaus Barbieland.
How much per ad man? I'm jealous 😀. I need my Downy and Toilet paper ads man. Maybe we could record the ads for prosperity and share them?
