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Cant believe they are increasing the prices this much in one go, gonna be going back to adblockers.
I'm surprised more people aren't using uBlock Origin. It's an absolute necessity for browsing the web anymore.
It's available for mobile as well. You find it in the extension manager
For which mobile and what extensions manager?
I'm blocking ads phone-wide, I just don't use uBlock Origin for that on the phone.
I honestly think it' seven more important to have an adblock on a phone.
The amount of pages that on mobile are an advert covering the top half, and a give us your data prompt at the bottom seems to be nearly everything these days. At least on a monitor there's room for the content.
I didn't say I don't block ads on the phone. Read my other comments here.
Firefox on android supports addons, so you can install uBlock on it too. If you use an apple device, you are limited to DNS based ad blocking, which doesn't help with youtube.
Same, but when I sit and do stuff in my laptop I end up procrastinating even more with it than my phone... Anyway, I block ads everywhere I can, and when I cannot, usually I have a pihole running in the background for that in my local network.
It's so nice to live in the EU, where my right to block ads is protected by law.
It's more so that you are allowed to try to block ads. If YouTube adds DRM or otherwise manages to stop usage of ad blocking, they are completely in their right to do so.
IIRC if something runs on your system, you have the right to mess with it, however you want — e.g. block specific parts of the site, or use reader mode etc.
If youtube does that, I will stop using the site and wait for a workaround to be written. You could preload the videos and cut out the ads, for example.
I have YouTube Premium though not the Family variant and Google won't just fix their app. It is way behind NewPipe or YouTube ReVanced. No, I don't need shorts. No I don't need constant nudges to join groups of YouTubers by paying after I just paid you money, Google!
What I want is system wide quality setting (what exactly does High or Data Saver mean; would it kill you to give 480p, 720p or 1080p as options) or Sponserblock integration (okay, this thing is probably never gonna happen but still). YouTube 's app is a stinking pile of shit. I just use YouTube Music from them and will cancel/not renew my plan after it lapses.
It's funny, because sponsorblock and vanced only exist because of youtube's greed. And now I can't imagine using their service without them, even if they rollback the annoying ads. And they can't implement them. It's really the problem they made for themselves.
As I said in a previous post, people are afraid of pirating, so they prefer higher prices if it is a "safe" method.
I wouldn't call it pirating... More like... I receive the video, but the ads were unfortunately lost on the way....
In religion, people are:
- Forced to believe unconditionally
- Based on this programming, they are told never to disobey
How exactly is YouTube doing that?
Zoom out; Youtube is not consumerism, and religion predates currency by a long shot. Fear is its original seed.
If you're making a correlation, I fail to understand it. Can you dumb it down?
People tend to be afraid of the unknown — generally agreed to be symptomatic of the awareness of one's own mortality (some, less consciously than others). And, as the saying goes, "necessity is the mother of invention". Our prehistoric forebears came up with their own reasons why otherwise inexplicable things happened, and how — the real lucky shamans landed a "when" here and there, no doubt....
But, where that galvanizing (and often innocuous) superstition gained straight up viral status was with the invention of gods. That's religion. That "inescapable" caste system for your "soul". Completely fabricated for the sole ^heh purpose of population control in every capacity.
Now, what is your so-called "soul" if not made of your self-worth? Fast forward ~297,400 years to when a system of value placeholders is created (currency), and then a mere 1,300 years more for it to beget commercialism (not evolve; spawn). Then, driven by advertising, materialism, and greed, commerce rapidly gives rise to consumerism, et al. as we live it today.
These two parasitic institutions of our modern age are rooted in the same concepts, the same drive for control.
YouTube is in the system as much as we all are, and just like church: you can choose to be neither prey or product.
You choose.
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I still don't see the point.
If religion showed you a method to get to God (praying, doing good deeds etc) and then someone came along who proved that there was a significantly easier way of attaining Nirvana without all the hassle; man would be afraid. "What if we get found out?" But when they see a LARGE and growing community of people ABLE to attain nirvana in exactly the same manner as described (i.e. without the pain) and while fighting the borderline criminal requirements that religion set - many would agree and leave the supposed "set" path and embark towards the easier solution. Some may do it out of greed, some desperation, and many more through sheer curiosity.
Why are people afraid of piracy? Use a damn no-log VPN and attain whatever it is you want without corporate monkeys in your brain. Get a seed box to give back to the community. Give a coffee to the people doing the hard work for the extra seretonin.
The only reason why someone would be arbitrarily afraid is if they don't have a clue. Such people should be getting into a habit of RTFM; they're going to need it.
A LOT of people pay for that. I was flabbergasted as well. Why would you pay for a free service? This feels like buying premium bottled tap water and they don't even bother to filter out the chlorine and the heavy metals.
Why would you pay for a free service?
If it were a charity or non-profit that would be one thing. Google is doing fine without your support though.
It started out incredibly cheap ($15 mo for six people), and includes a Spotify style music streaming service
To be fair, this does add more to the pot for YouTube creators.
If you're a YouTube Premium member, you won't see ads, so we share your monthly membership fee with creators. Best of all, the more videos you watch from your favorite creators, the more money they make.
So this has been true of YouTube Red since the beginning. It's one if the reasons I got it. But they use watch time as the way to divide your money out. It actually makes it extremely unfair split for people that make great but short content. It's also why longer content became more popular around that time and those 24/7 streams run like that.
Also why creators started doing channels of just padded run time content of like building legos and eating things. It's to secure better and funding.
The current setup is pretty busted and feels like the wheels are coming off again.
Well, once again they still hurt more the "legal" clients, nothing new really.
I still happily have my ad-less YT experience in all the devices I own (as a matter of fact, I just convinced my girlfriend to sideload a YT client to get her a similar experience of mine in her iPhone).
Didn't even know Youtube premium was still a thing. Been too busy using FreeTube, NewPipe, and SmartTube to notice
I'm sure that will incentivize more people to sign up for Youtube Family Plan. I was just looking for an excuse to spend more money to get a poor service!
