Or just not watch.

Use Revanced and forever be free

Wouldnt that just cause them to increase prices more? Since now someone else has to pay for the bandwith you use?

Thus what you are doing is using your technological know how to offload your costs onto less technical users who can't adblock.

The morally correct thing to do is to stop watching youtube and/pr go to a paid platform that's an alternative, like floatplane or nebula and support the creators there, isn't it? But let's be honest, we all know you just want adfree youtube videos for free.

Bitwarden is worth it. (Yes, I know, I should self host it. I do, but I still see it as a good deal.) Also Hetzner is a good subscription. So yes, some are worth it

i meam the payment for a domain name is kinda worth it. as well as a functional vpn

I pay for my email (Proton) password manager (last pass), and VPN (nordvpn).

I'd say subs that maintain your privacy and security are well worth it - there is no such thing as a free lunch and instead the tech giants are dining out at the expense of users.

Googles ad monopoly needs to be torn apart. Because YouTube premium prices may actually represent what it really costs to maintain video sites like YouTube, but Google have managed to destroy all competition with the free model and now there is no one realistically able to compete on content or price.

So, steal everything or something else? Content isn't free. The ad model exists, but only works if people see the ads.

If everyone blocks all ads, and doesn't pay a subscription, how's that work for those providing the service?

I'm not defending YouTube here, just curious what your solution is to have a service and not pay for it.

I do pay for YT family Premium in the US. I watch mostly YT, and it is my music streaming service. I definitely​ liked it more when it was costing me $15/mo for that and was mad when that went to $23. I even tried switching to Spotify and using ad blocking on YT. I didn't jive with Spotify, and while ad blockers work for YT, it's a bit of a pain installing them on TV boxes and managing subscriptions across devices, asking with which videos you've seen etc.

Freetube doesn't seem to work anymore (for me at least) as Google went hard on blocking all invidious instances and proxies...

Also Revanced

iOS user here, uYou++ is quite good, but only a mod for the regular YT app, not a complete alternative.

iOS/iPadOS: Safari + AdGuard (+ Vinegar (optional))

macOS: Safari + AdGuard or Firefox + uBO or FreeTube

As an iPhone user I like to use YtLitePlus, it’s pretty much the same user experience as using revanced on android, maybe even a bit better. I’d like to have an alternative client such as NewPipe but hey, we can’t have everything.

I switched from FF to librewolf. Less convenient, more privacy, no pesky G**gle partnerships, afaict.

I use to use tubular, but it stopped working and I'm not computer savy enough to fix it. Can anyone offer some assistance please? It gets the infinite loading icon and then gives me an error

Except youtube music, I guess

This is simply Business 101. Once you have a customer base you want to trade low-payers for high.

Did this with my computer business years ago. Woke up one day and said, "Why am I sweating these cheapskates that constantly bitch?" Fired them and kept the higher-paying, and less bitchy, clients. I was making more money for less effort and less overhead.

I don't know what amazes me more, that people keep paying when they know the price will keep going up, or that people bitch and moan. Last I checked, YouTube access isn't a human right. I'll keep using it until these is no way around their ads, but I'm not paying them a dime.

Hello based department?

Like Reddit dying after the API incident?

Just like Reddit, Google are going nowhere; sadly.

bring back web 1.0 because web 1.0 was superior.

There's a neocities project... As for Netscape... I think SeaMonkey is still active?

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Firefox + uBlock Origin already does it too. No ads, and I can listen even when my phone is locked.

Tubular if you want a newpipe fork that also includes Sponsor skips!

FreeTube for desktop.

Just did cause of ur comment actually, thank you so much!

Any alternatives for iOS?

I really like Grayjay, also on Android. The nice thing is it also supports other sources, so you can watch Odysee, Rumble, Nebula, Peertube and others on it. If the same video is on multiple platforms, it recognizes that and only shows one.

you haven't lost anything

Apart from all future customers that will now choose another service

You don't lose anything for the moment, but it might come back to bite you later regardless. Because Youtube needs to grow until the end of times but can't, it will end ugly one way or another. It's more of a symptom of a bigger problem than an isolated, 'smart' business decision.

smarttube on tv

Revanced

I'm in the same boat as you and never found anything for Samsung tizen os. Smarttube is android based only and anything streamed to a Chromecast still has ads.

Edit: okay I thought let's search one's more. And there is tizentube did not try it yet but seems promising

More and more I try to find my entertainment elsewhere. I am slowly, but surely, migrating away from youtube (and google in general).

I suspect the user content is the root of the problem. 500 hours of video is being uploaded every minute. YouTube has to transcode and store everything, and be ready to stream it at a moment's notice, even though the vast majority of videos probably get only a handful of views (if any). That's a lot of unused resources that have to be paid for by subscribers and advertisers.

If they were to charge just a little for uploads then content creators would be more inclined to consider whether their upload is of interest to anyone else, and that might take away a lot of the waste.

relies so much on user content

Does it? I mean, it hosts user content but it doesn't really monetize that. YouTube relies on creators, and it pays them.

Plop plop fizz fizz.

Yup. People will whinge, moan, and pay up. Same with Netflix.

Pi-hole, although really you can accomplish network ad blocking with just about any spare computer.

JK refer to the comment below mine

You got a scrap Roku and move into a platform that supports one of the ad-free clients but I wouldn't do that just yet. YouTube's about to shove in-stream ads down which is going to break every bit of that blocking for quite a bit It might turn out something else is the way to go by the time the dust settles.

Invidious used to work, it's a self hosted YouTube instance that blockw out ads and has things like sponsorblock. I have Playlet installed on my roku pointing at my instance but about a week or so ago it's been giving only errors 😔.

Please tell me a simple, idiot-proof way to block YT ads on all devices incl. Mobiles, Shield etc. that doesn't require something complex like piHole, works outside the home (family's phones etc. ), and doesn't risk blocking stuff it shouldn't. That's my trouble. Premium solves all of that, while bringing other small benefits. Maybe there's a better way.

Creators get way more money with Premium viewers than ad-based ones, or at least it used to be that way.

I use the PS5 to watch YouTube on the TV, no way around the ads there. But no way in hell I'm paying them!

They don’t. They probably raised the prices just so you’d quit.

You don't need to pay for smart TVs, if you have an Android TV you can just install SmartTube Next. It's even better than the official app!

This is just the pregame for unblockable ads.

Grayjay

Thanks for the Info. Tubular APK can be downloaded directly from Git and so far seems legit and performance. Very Nice! :]

You don't even need to pirate, just use an ad blocker and support your creators directly. My perspective is that, unless you agree to their TOS, it's on them to prevent any activity that's unprofitable to them, and so far, uBlock Origin on Firefox works fine on YouTube directly.

Take what you would've spent on YouTube premium at a more reasonable price and send that to the creators you follow.

I thought I was the only one. But turns out, there are dozens of us!

Really though. Just ran a Google search. Take it with a grain of salt. 100 million subs worldwide. So it's not huge. But doesn't feel small either.

Paying for service? Why those savages!

Just spend $20 on an onn box from Walmart + smarttube.

I don't know about samsungs, but Sony and any android or Google TV is a breeze to hack. Vizio and lg are a pain in the ass but they can be done, so I would assume someone smarter than me has figured it out and posted a tutorial

Same, but nvidia shield. I’ve tried pihole and pf-blocker with no success.

You might want to check out "Spotube"! Awesome combo of Spotify and YouTube.

Yeah I'm affected but will probably keep my subscription. Spotify has a shitty track record as well and the price difference is still worth it to enjoy ad free YouTube on the TV. I feel like it's still a good value to be honest. But it also does suck to get squeezed.

YouTube is the only streaming platform I pay for. I don't want to bother with 3rd party apps, and I use it every day. Plus I get YouTube music out of it, so I don't need to pay for Spotify. Overall 7/10 it's fine.

No judgements toward people who don't want to pay though, I get it.

If you have kids that watch on devices that can’t easily block ads like TVs or game consoles, it’s worth every penny.

YouTube ads are full of scams and smut and all sorts of other things I don’t want my kids exposed too

It's unusable without ads, so if you watch a lot of YouTube it's worth to pay.

I use it mostly for YouTube music (which costs almost the same as Spotify), no ads on YouTube is a nice bonus.

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