Use Firefox. Use ublock origin extension. Use sponsorblock.
On iOS Safari extension Adblock. Plenty available.
I have not seen an ad in years. Decades even.
this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2024
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Everyone say to use an AdBlock. And while for now they work it's a lose battle.
Youtube ads vs adblockers does not have the happy ending of adblockers just always prevailing.
As now embedded serverside ads are a pain to deal with. I don't know if any adblock currently can surpass those.
But next step will be youtube just putting a fence up and not letting you watch content unless you are registered, and thus banning any suspicious activity, or even just becoming a paid service.
The only win here is moving to a open platform like Peertube. That's the only future we can ensure. Adblocks won't be able to always win.
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I know this is an incredibly unpopular take on Lemmy, but YT Premium is the best value subscription on the web by my reckoning. I watch an absolute fuck ton of content on YT, and I listen to an absolute fuck ton of music on YT music. And my partner does too.
If you don't use YT enough to justify the cost of the sub, I understand being frustrated with the ads but it's a free service. I can't imagine the amount of data that YT serves daily to free users.
Yeah I'm with you on this, I actually only got it for YouTube music — which really is like "here you can play any song from the history of humanity and also yt video audios." Well actually what happened is I was using Google Music and then the assholes shut it down and merged it into YT Music which is now roughly on par. I was pissed, but user retained
But I have been enjoying the fact that my subscription goes towards paying the ppl I watch, and I like that I'm unaffected by YT's server side ads concept (which I've always wondered why they don't do, I think it makes CDNs too hard to optimize while stitching ads directly into videos)
Well they’ve successfully extorted you.
Most of us use ad blockers.
Extorted? Why are you so dramatic? It's a service I'm happy to pay for.
I use ad blockers too. But I also don't mind paying for a good service. The cost of the service is worth it to me for the conveniences it offers. If I didn't feel that way, I wouldn't pay for it, but I also wouldn't be complaining about something I'm not paying for.
Yeah if you enjoy some kinds of things that are only with it and it’s like more content there is nothing extortion about it. You kinda implied you pay for it so as to not see ads. My bad.
Honestly though I personally don’t think any of this stuff is worth paying for but I’m not typical. My wife and I pay for Az prime for the deliveries alone but we get tons of extra stuff with it such as streaming tv, grubhub+ and a few other things like hbo max and peacock I think.
We also pay for Netflix. With all that, I still often find I search for something and either nobody has it or Az has it but you have to pay extra.
I torrent everything I want and fuck the lot of them. We’re already paying them as it is. But then that’s how I’ve been doing most tv and movies since like early 2000s.
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Even without the ads, the algorithm is so crap that I doubt you would find what you were looking for. On an iPhone you either pay for Premium for a shitty service or try building and sideloading uYouPlus. Adguard + Safari works to an extent and Brave might work better but haven’t tried it.
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What I'm amazed about is that ads even work at all. Especially when they are white noise. I've never once clicked on an ad to go see more about the content because I'm here to watch a video.
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