I've used most available services, but discontinued one after another along with promises that a better user experience will be provided with reduced content and removed functionality with the slight price hike. YouTube was my first and last video service I paid for, only Spotify remains on the borderline.
Based on the screenshot I assume that you used youtube premium lite (what ever this was...) on your smartphone. Therefore, here the obligatory recommendation for NewPipe. Quasi Youtube Premium as apk. It has all the features you need:
- no ads
- you can close the app and your videos keep running in the background
- you can turn off the screen and your videos will continue to run in the background
There is also the fork NewPipe x SponsorBlock (link to repository) which integrates SponsorBlock into the app. (duh...) This will also skip the creator's ad blocks in the video.
Yep. Same reason I will never pay for it and I point this out to anyone who has it. They simply created a problem only to sell the solution. Scummy to the end.
As someone who has worked on free Internet services, it used to be easier to make money from ads. A video ad view was worth nearly a dollar US. Audio ads were maybe 7 or 8 cents a listen. Now, a video ad view makes a few cents and audio ads are worthless. They likely did the math about how many audio ads they'd have to play on the phone in your pocket to break even and decided you'd hate it more than they would. Since content owners get just over half of what YouTube makes, they'd probably be pissed about seeing the drop in income too.
Feel free to hate YT. This was an economic decision at around the time when ad revenue had just fallen off of a cliff.
These companies are really shooting themselves in the foot with this shit.
This is Lemmy, you can swear here. Don't be afraid to say 'What the frak'.
My mother taught me that it's fucking impolite to say "what" in mixed company
"Huh?" is a solid alternative. Especially as a single word reply on forums. /s
I like a good "Doh!" myself.
this is not a simpsons reference
Watch that fucking language you foul mouthed son of a bitch
This is stupid. Kick out a customer? Guess €0 per month is better than €7
Greedy fucks
I do not understand the position where companies first provide a good service and and than later reduces the experience and functionality. YouTube especially, when they are providing a platform but not the content.
Their AI would easily see that I more or less gave them free money since I wasn't a high consumer putting any load on their data centers. I paid to remove the worst ads around to just see a few trailers and videos for the kids.
I do not understand the position where companies first provide a good service and and than later reduces the experience and functionality.
Twitter has taught us that the vast majority, once committed to a platform, will tolerate endless abuse and never leave. So companies treat you real nice to get you in the door so they can piss all over you later.
Do a search for "embrace extend extinguish" to learn more.
EEE and enshittification are very related concepts. The extinguish phase of EEE usually goes hand in hand with enshittification as once you've extinguished the competition you're free to cut costs and enjoy a monopoly. Cutting costs leads to enshittification.
Related in the sense that they're both common techniques in capitalism. You can use one without the other just fine. EEE can only be applied by market leaders, enshittification hits all (public) companies on the capitalist market.
EEE is about a big company acting like they're helping a smaller company/organization, but they have the goal of taking full monopolistic control over the market. Enshittification is companies using loss leader products to create lock-in, and then slowly making the product worse to squeeze money out of all parties until the company's product crashes and fades into irrelevancy.
I recommend a trip to India (VPN) for buying YT premium. Together with family I got my monthly price to approx. 1$
🤔mhh that's interesting how does it work in details ... Did u have to always connect from India then ? What else could I apply this trick for ... ?
"If these bozos are willing to pay for some of Youtube, they'll probably pay for all of Youtube"
In addition to Newpipe, there is Freetube for desktop: https://freetubeapp.io/
I get the same premium experience with free firefox adblocker
Fortunately there's newpipe and libretube, though the latter feels like regular YouTube app.
As a IT dumbass, it seems all the listed options here so far are for Android. Are there any similar apps for IOS?
If you have an Android TV, just download an app called "SmartTube". I used to be subscribed to YT Premium but then I found that app and cancelled my membership. It automatically blocks all ads and also has SponsorBlock implemented which auto-skips sponsored segments, etc. It's super useful. Then on my phone I use YT Revanced which is essentially a modded version of the YT app which does practically the same thing as SmartTube.
