• Sabata11792
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    4611 months 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]
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    4211 months ago

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

    • @moose_cannonOP
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      711 months ago

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

      • MuchPineapples
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        511 months ago

        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.

          • MuchPineapples
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            111 months ago

            Yeah the app is updated very often, but it’s not always necessary to actually update. But once every 3 to 6 months or so you need to, to keep it from functioning with googles servers.

    • @[email protected]
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      311 months ago

      does this support 4k? Anything i’ve used that says they do actually don’t. FreeTube, Invidious, Piped

    • Sousa
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      211 months ago

      In moments like these, I absolutely hate having a Tizen TV, I really need to get a Chromecast or something.

  • AerM
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    2611 months ago

    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]
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      1311 months ago

      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]
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      511 months 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.

  • iAmTheTot
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    2311 months ago

    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.

    • Iwamoto
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      811 months ago

      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.

      • Fatalchemist
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        611 months 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]
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    2311 months ago

    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]
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      1811 months 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.

    • JDPoZ
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      611 months ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    2111 months 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…

  • @this
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    2011 months ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      311 months ago

      Put it into some AR goggles and the dystopian cyberpunk future will no longer be sci fi

  • meat_popsicle
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    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 “value”.

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

    Then just: “Pay us a monthly rate and get served ads.”

    It’s like fucking clockwork with these ghouls.

    • sverit
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      511 months ago

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

        • @[email protected]
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          411 months ago

          The $1/mo is for a student account. The regular account is $1.5/mo, and a family account is $2.3/mo. You’d probably need to use a VPN every time you wanted to renew it (monthly, I suppose). There are annual plans with a 10% discount, so you could probably go for an annual membership and have to do it only once a year.

      • @notasandwich1948
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        111 months ago

        to be fair you don’t need premium to not have ads

    • @[email protected]
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      211 months ago

      Yes. I use a service so I pay for the service. I use software frameworks so I donate to their patreons.

        • @[email protected]
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          311 months ago

          Do you happen to know of a replacement for Youtube Vanced? It stopped getting supported due to cease and desist, and now it only works like half the time… (idk why youtube doesn’t create a version check and make it not work all the time, but w/e lmao I’ll take what I can get)

          • Aleks
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            611 months ago

            there is a replacement called revanced, here is their github page.

            You will have to compile the youtube app yourself, their revanced manager will help you with that.

            And you have to download the latest supported version that is 18.19.35 from apk mirror.

            If you need any more help feel free to ask me :)

            • @[email protected]
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              211 months ago

              Tutorial Revanced. Download the latest Revanced Manager App from here & install: https://github.com/revanced/revanced-manager/releases/tag/v1.3.5 After that uninstall every update of your installed YouTube. (Use Google for that) Start Revanced Manager - Patcher - Select application - YouTube. Now look at the “Suggested:” app version. Remember the version number, go to apkmirror.com, search for YouTube and the right version number. Download and install. Restart Revanced Manager, Patcher, select, YouTube. Suggested and current should be the same version numbers now. Go to selected patches, click on default (if you don’t know what you are doing), click done. Click on patch, wait a bit. While it’s repacking go to your Youtube and disable it, before the install prompt comes (if you do it too early, there might be an error. Retry). When the install promp comes, you click install (and you might need to allow it in the settings). Voila, you have Revanced installed.

              • Aleks
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                411 months ago

                its not the supported way of doing it, and revanced doesnt release apks and therefore the apk you provided its not safe to use, even if there is nothing malicious in this apk you are never sure of that, so its better to just make the app with the manager yourself and btw its not that hard to do

          • Aleks
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            211 months ago

            there is a replacement called revanced, here is their github page.

            You will have to compile the youtube app yourself, their revanced manager will help you with that.

            And you have to download the latest supported version that is 18.19.35 from apk mirror.

            If you need any more help feel free to ask me :)

            • @[email protected]
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              311 months ago

              Just did it, and it worked! Bit of a trick but wasn’t as hard as I anticipated so that’s awesome

      • @[email protected]
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        111 months ago

        What’s your smart TV? I’ve jailbroken my LG C1 and I have YouTube without ads, and better yet, SponsorBlock built in so I don’t get even the ads being read by the YouTubers themselves.

  • @[email protected]
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    1311 months 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.