• EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    13 days ago

    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.

  • RagingRobot@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    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.

  • nek0d3r@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    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.

  • Kilometers_OBrien@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    11 days ago

    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.

    • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
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      13 days ago

      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.

      • Natanael@slrpnk.net
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        13 days ago

        They do, and based on reported stats it gets them more per viewer. No idea if anybody’s audited those stats though

        • NateSwift@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          13 days ago

          Not sure about currently but at least a year or two ago creators could see the split of premium views & income vs free views and income and premium views always paid out more

          • elgordino@fedia.io
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            13 days ago

            They still can. Whether premium or ad supported views pays more depends on the channel and the value of the adverts that are streamed on it. For channels / topics that advertisers are keen to appear on the ad supported views pay more, for more niche interests the premium views pay more.

    • astanix@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      13 days ago

      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.

      • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
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        13 days ago

        On a TV use SmartTube. On QN Android device (phone or tablet) use LibreTube (or InnerTune for music)

        • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          13 days ago

          And then you’re stuck constantly reminding every family member which app to use on which device when they come to you because they’re getting ads or something isn’t working right.

          For a single power use that’s fine, for a family with kids, it’s nearly impossible without going crazy and killing them.

          • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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            12 days ago

            +1 for Vinegar. My only real complaint is that I use Firefox as a daily driver, and Vinegar only works with Safari. Even though Firefox is using the Safari engine under the hood on iOS, (because Apple doesn’t allow third party browser engines like Firefox’s Gecko, and forces everyone to use WebKit instead,) it doesn’t support Safari extensions.

            I’m fine with switching to Safari to watch YouTube… But since Firefox is my default browser, YouTube links automatically open in Firefox. There isn’t a way to specify that I want everything except YouTube to open in my default browser.

      • Funkwonker@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        13 days ago

        SmartTube for TV and ReVanced/uYouPlus for Andriod/IOS devices. SmartTube can be tricky to set up depending on the TV, but the mobile apps are relatively simple to get working.

        • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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          12 days ago

          There is no ReVanced or uYouPlus for iOS. You have to sideload that shit, cuz YouTube is too far up Apple’s ass for them to allow something like that on the App Store.

          Ironically, they allow Vinegar. But only because it’s a Safari extension (and Apple likes when people use Safari more than they like the money from YouTube.)

          • scarilog@lemmy.world
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            12 days ago

            You have to sideload that shit

            That’s a price you pay when you buy apple. Thankfully it is still an option, just takes a bit more time and effort than on android.

  • Tuxman@sh.itjust.works
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    12 days ago

    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…

    • spicystraw@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      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.

    • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
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      12 days ago

      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

      • bitwolf@lemmy.one
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        12 days ago

        Thanks, I’m still grandfathered in at the beta price, but I mainly use it for discovering music to add to my Plex collection. The free YouTube is a bonus for me.

        I know it’s temporary, I’ll probably cancel when Im asked to pay full price

        • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          10 days ago

          I didn’t realize that they still had grandfather’s subscriptions, I was the same where I got it at a lower price, but they decided that they weren’t going to honor that price 2 years ago and raised it anyway. I’ve told myself I’m dropping the sub if it goes up again because honestly it’s current price is a little outrageous. But I watch over a thousand hours of YouTube a year so therefore it’s worth it to me.

          • bitwolf@lemmy.one
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            9 days ago

            The thing is I don’t think I’m supposed to be. They said they’d terminate it so I’m just grateful for the borrowed time I have.

            I’ve been subscribed since the minute GPM launched the beta.

    • Wogi@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      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.

    • woelkchen@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      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.

  • emrsmsrli@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    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

  • riodoro1@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    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

    • drake@lemmy.sdf.org
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      12 days ago

      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.