That’s not an ad. That’s a high quality premium product reminder. To remove these reminders please subscribe to YouTube Premium Plus.
Ublock on Firefox> premium, they will always try to advertise even if you pay unfortunately
This even works on my tablet, even after they blocked vanced from playing videos.
idk if you have heard but there is revanced
I have not, but I know what I’m installing tonight. Thanks, homie!
There’s also newpipe and libretube for android but neither play well on tablets. Good for the phone though.
But revance extended works great on both :-)
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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.
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.
I can’t explain how much this pisses me off
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.
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Unfortunately, youtube is mostly a TV thing for me. Very hard to ad block on smart tvs
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Or you can use Downloader if you use an Amazon TV device. (Screw you Google for removing Downloader)
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This is God’s truth
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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.
I get an update almost every day
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.
In moments like these, I absolutely hate having a Tizen TV, I really need to get a Chromecast or something.
does this support 4k? Anything i’ve used that says they do actually don’t. FreeTube, Invidious, Piped
It does.
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I like the game grumps and Lex Fridman. The documentaries are cool, but I have to watch them in a different container or YouTube will start feeding me 30 minute ads or rants that sound reasonable but are super bigoted and flawed when you actually think about it
Reddit meant more to me than anything else I do online, and I committed to leaving it behind even before I found Lemmy… YouTube is barely worth it even without the ads. And I’ve got a whole fediverse of video content to investigate
One of my oldest friends has recently started turning to the dark side, his PC died and he’s run out of new shows to watch… so started watching stuff on YouTube via the suggestions.
It started off as debates between men and women… I warned him that it was going to suggest him more and more extreme stuff and the algo will walk him further to the right. Now he’s quoting Andrew Tate, watching videos with conspiracies about great reset, ranting about trans people, ugh. When he said “the media is shoving trans in our face, all these trans personalities” I asked him to list these trans personalities, he couldn’t list one. He’s just spewing the rhetoric YT fed him. Very sad, he’s not the only one being infected by this shit.
There are dozens of third-party YouTube frontends that’ll work.
You can always create a better frontend for new pipe and use YouTube add usual
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
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.
SmartTube - if you’ve got an Android streaming box (like an NVIDIA Shield Pro, for example), sideload it. You’ll thank me later.
I use this on my Google tv. Game changer.
If one were interested, they would sideload what exactly?
I’ve never seen an ad on the youtube app, it’s just a bug. ___
What you thought that paying money would take away the ads?! (Laughs in profit)
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.
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.
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.
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.
Put it into some AR goggles and the dystopian cyberpunk future will no longer be sci fi
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…
nothing mild about this. this is straight enraging. I hate youtube.
Wait people actually pay for that shit 🤔
Yes and it worth it not to see garbage ads.
to be fair you don’t need premium to not have ads
Via VPN in India. Costs about 1$ per month.
You can just use smart tube for TV and revanced for Android if you don’t wanna pay
So you just need VPN for one time purchase or how? Asking for a friend.
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.
Thank you!
Yes. I use a service so I pay for the service. I use software frameworks so I donate to their patreons.
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.
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.
Do you have a Chromecast? Install “smarttube” instead. It strips out all ads, and even has sponsor block built in so it skips sponsor stuff in video.
Can’t believe I hadn’t heard of this. Would always cast from my ad-blocked PC. But now I can use this - Thanks!
I don’t know, I use uBlock Origin for Chrome (not sure if there are equivalents for other browsers) and I never see adds from my desktop, with a free account.
It does not scrap out sponsor babble but it definitely blocks youtube adds.
Pretty sure OP and others above are talking about from smart enabled media devices like Amazon firestick or google’s equivalent chromecast, a hardware device you plugin to your tv, not the chromecast capability.
OK I must admit I’m very old in Internet time and I didn’t get that they were not talking about a simple navigator on desktop. I do have a smart vaccum cleaner robot which is not a roomba, although I managed to connect it to my wifi and I can control it from an app on my smartphone. Just trying to keep up.
Thanks for this comment. I just set this up on my Chromecast HD and it works incredibly well. I may just cancel YouTube premium now!
