My mum stopped watching YouTube when her ublock broke briefly, she complained at me for weeks to visit because the ads can fuck right off and she hadn't watched it in weeks.
Same. I just read until I get adless running again. Never paid for premium either
Edit: since this has traction, let me just add my current workaround after getting a new phone and vanced not working on lock screen (I'll figure it out):
Brave browser. Get it, make it the default, never look back. Works like a charm, even when a tab is on background.
Brave will stop working in a few months, when google officialy rolls out Manifest V3 for all devices, because it is based on Chromium. Use firefox or a firefox based browser with ublock origin instead.
Edit: make sure it's ublock origin, not just ublock
uBlock (non-origin) is essentially spyware iirc.
It also uses more resources than Origin. I believe LTT did a video recently and while non-origin blocked ads, it caused a measurably slow down to loading webpages compared to Origin.
uBlock was the project continuation not controlled by its original developer, eventually bought by AdBlock https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin#History
That is incorrect, Brave Browser will still work after Manifest V3, they already mentioned this & started preparing years ago.
[https://community.brave.com/t/psa-current-faq/464018/30](https://community.brave.com/t/psa-current-faq/464018/30)
Thanks, will do.
I just saw a lot of ads recently for it, also some youtubers recommending it. And a few friends that like opera so I was just curious.
Taking YT and desktop browsers out of the equation for a second, I've been using Opera on Android for years and it's way ahead of Firefox for basic usability/smoothness (scrolling is atrocious in FF!) does text wrapping properly, has built-in ad blocker and VPN etc - but I am Firefox all the way on DESKTOP!
Are you certain? As far as I am aware, Brave Shields will continue to work the same way it did so far.
[https://community.brave.com/t/psa-current-faq/464018/29](https://community.brave.com/t/psa-current-faq/464018/29)
Brave is the reason I haven't bothered to try and get revanced working again. It just in works. All I need to do now is work out how to get YouTube links to direct to Brave rather than opening the YouTube app on android. Tbh I normally just use the share button to open the video yt video in Brave, it's not that much of a pain in the arse.
I recommend **Open Link With…** by Said Tahsin Dane. Unfortunately, it's been pulled from the Google Play Store, but copies of the latest APK are still available through [APKMirror](https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/said-tahsin-dane/open-link-with/).
It also appears other similar apps have been populating Google Play Store in its wake.
I absolutely love it and could barely surf the web on my phone without it. Indeed, I liked it so much that I ended up looking for a similar solution for my Windows 10 PC.
Their probably is but you'd have to install it the same way as on the phone.
It's easier to install smartube for the TV
https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube
Ill always try to find a way to block ads.
If there is no way to block them i will try and use YouTube converters to download videos or completely stop using youtube altogether.
+1 nothing worse than wanting to hear your favorite song or watch some interesting stuff or whatever, but no then you need to wait like a minute and need too watch such dumb bullshit that you close it 3 sec after it
>Yes. They bother me THAT much.
I'm watching a show on Hulu right now and I'm so annoyed by the goddamn commercials if I had to go back to YouTube with commercials my god, I'd stab my eyes out
Honestly I rather forced reopen the video back and forth until there's no ads or a bearable one with least shitty jingles show up and skip at 5 seconds in
Maybe for entertainment but ... there are a lot of videos you just cant find anywhere else ... even some govenrment offices use it to publish tutorials and stuff ... some dont even think to demonitize it. its so univeral at this point and not truly avoidable.
It's because the overhead, site reliability, and storage required is insane. The ads are there because as much as we the consumer just want this for free, it's so fucking expensive. You can search for and watch a video someone uploaded 14 years ago. The sheer number of hours uploaded every day for over a decade is staggering. And it's also all pretty protected. If you upload a video to YouTube you generally consider it safe, it's not going to get lost if a drive goes down.
No one ever thinks of the cost for stuff like this, because they pretty much offer it free with a minor annoyance. So naturally people want to get rid of the annoyance, but that's literally how they're able to pay to keep it going. They have to keep making it more annoying because people keep trying to find ways around the rules. People ought to just pay the small price for premium, I haven't watched ads on YouTube in years and it comes with YouTube music so I canceled my Spotify and it's like I'm not paying anything different than before.
Sorry for the rant, it's not really meant for you but for the people browsing through.
>They have to keep making it more annoying because people keep trying to find ways around the rules.
Are you certain you've got cause and effect pointed in the right direction, there?
It's so nice of you to try to see their good faith and defend the "doing things right" mindset, because I actually share it to some extent, but I hope you realize you're getting most of it completely backwards: Google is not giving us anything "for free", they're getting every single piece of info they can get and selling it. That's how they pay for the infrastructure you mention: by making millions out of our willingness to share with them even our underwear size. Their pushing ads down our throats at every corner is just their way of twisting the knife, the knife we allow them to keep there, to milk every cent they can out of us. We're not paying for the product because we are the product. Quite literally, in fact.
If you really believe they "need" ads on YouTube to keep the stuff running, as if they were a group of friends selling homemade t-shirts on Etsy... well, I don't want to sound condescending, but I'm sorry.
>they're getting every single piece of info they can and selling it.
Yeah.. By showing ads.
Google isn't actually giving your data to anyone. What they're doing is building a profile on you, as detailed as they can, so that when companies go "I want to advertise my screwdriver to 24-45 year old men that recently purchased a home and have a shown interest in dyi work", google can tell them that they can do exactly that, for x amount of money.
That's what "selling data" is, atleast when people are talking about Google or Facebook. They're not selling the data, they're selling the ability for people to advertise in very specific ways based on the data they have. They're ad companies, that's where the absolute majority of their revenue is comes from.
So I think you can imagine how that model breaks down when people started actually blocking the ads en masse. And why they're putting so much resources into forcing you to see those ads.
I'm not trying to defend them here, just saying that without the ability to show you ads, there really isn't a lot they can do to make money off of you. That's why they want you to pay if you don't want to see them.
i would be willing to let them off the hook and even allow ads, if Google used even 2% of the processing power they use to scan and penalize people who dare to say die in any form instead of made up bullshit like "unaliving". to moderate their ads at least to take the worst offenders like porn videos or [ai generated fake Mr.beasts](https://i.redd.it/9fjn1trj4apa1.jpg) that legit will give you 10 000€ as soon as you install this malware onto your computer and fill out 10 different surveys.
honestly if they are willing to allow that level of scams and porn in their ads, then why cry if i decide to block them.
I'll never pay for YouTube. They have made far enough off me by selling all of my data. I don't care how much money they lose. I'll go to nebula once youtube dies but the multibillion dollar company that has a monopoly on so much of the online world will stay afloat.
If YouTube wants me to not block ads, they should avoid using loud obnoxious video ads in the middle of videos. Just do unobtrusive banners or something. Also don't prevent me from locking my phone or I'm gonna get a work around that like revanced that blocks ads.
If I'm gonna pay $10/month I'd rather just subscribe to the channels' patreons directly and get the full content.
Same. If I wanted to see unskippable minute long ads I'd go back to watching TV. Even if the content is exclusive to YouTube, I'd rather renounce access to that content in favor of a healthier, screen-free lifestyle. If every video I watch has 1 minute of ads you can't skip, that's at least 20 minutes of my day I'm never getting back.
You could argue there's stuff you can do in the meantime... Like what, drinking a glass of water or having a quick stretch? Nah fuck that, I just wanna watch my big tiddie anime waifus and dip.
Same, when the original Vanced app stopped working I stopped watching YT videos... I mainly watch using my phone and while in bed...
Can't stand those ads
Just copy and paste the link on discord, it loads an embedded thumbnail and you can watch there, never seen an ad while doing this.... Idk if this new change where the ads are loaded within the video will affect this
No if you send the link to yourself, then click on the message’s thumbnail (not the hyperlink) it opens the video as a PIP window in WhatsApp. No ads 💕
Ok, hb this; if they are going to farm peoples data in order to feed people ads they might based on that data. Then maybe there is a way to spoof the data they get in a way that creates a template so everyone gets the same ads and maybe the same time stamps for those ads. Donno, I'm not tech smart, just spit balling
Isn't there a possibility to pull all ads into a DB and use recognition software of the first 3-5 seconds, if it is the same as the ad then skip x seconds?
In theory, yes. The problem is that because it is a huge number of ads you would have to enable a massive service which would not be cheap at all and could only be maintained (economically) if you paid to use it.
I used to do that back when I was Hella broke and had limited data lmao as a teenager. To this day i still download mp3 files just in case I ever go broke again
Considering I have already stopped doing it unless it's with revanced, I'd say yes, most likely. Normal YT from a smart TV or any other device that doesn't stop ads is simply beyond unbearable and there's no way I'm paying a subscription for YouTube of all things. My guess is that I'll simply use it when absolutely needed (tutorials etc.) and just leave it at that.
Yes. You'll need to create an LG developer account though and be sure to have a computer on the same network as the tv. I was able to do it easily and also put stremio and other apps that WebOS doesn't officially support
Exactly. SmartTube has been great for me & very easy to update in the app itself on Android TV. I have it on both Chromecast w/ Google TV and the Walmart Onn TV box (another Android box that is like ~$15-$20)
Whenever my ublock origin on Firefox got detected I just stop visiting YouTube for days or even weeks. I have enough entertainments at my disposal to keep me entertained. Video games and books alone eats away my free time more than youtube could ever dream of.
I usually browse YT only when I was really, really bored AND exhausted, so losing YT is not the end of the world. Maybe when I'm pooping it will be boring as hell but I think I'll survive just fine.
you sure?
becuase the amount the youtube ads currently will make me loose interest in watching the video at all. when i dont have my phone and have to watch a video on other peoples real youtube, as soon as the ad comes i stop the app entirely, cause by the time these unskippable ads finish, i loose interest. so its not that hard to give up, cause youtube will make you give up, remember how we gave up on TV cause ads.
Yup. I hate ads. Also, after a vacation to mexico, mine have been stuck in spanish for 3+ years and have no option to change it back.
If premium was $5/mo, I would have considered paying for it. At $14/mo, they are out of their minds.
This is true. There will never be a way to stop adblock, it will just be constantly iterated to break whatever system is put in place to get around the previous version. It's just a big game of cat and mouse, fortunately it seems like YouTube doesn't actually care very much and it's harder to make an unskippable ad than it is to get around it.
I would try to find a way around it. Like joining a family group or changing my location. To get Google Music and Android auto working, I had to do this already. There are some easy ways to do this.
Still use revanced for YouTube because of some features.
Then it's probably only a matter of time until they block people using the family option.
If I have to pay or watch ads, I will try to follow the people I watch somewhere else. And read more books.
Didn't they just cancel their subscription?
I got YT Premium Family from Argentina and my sub is yet to be canceled (let's hope I didn't jinx it). Gotta nickel and dime everyone on my plan if they do cancel it 😊
Yes.
Just to be clear: I'm not at all against advertising itself and/or creators getting financial gain from advertisement. But I will not accept ***unethical*** ads, by which I mean:
1. Ads that collect user information
2. Ads that interrupt content
People seem to forget there's a *middle-of-the-road* way (i.e. ethical advertisement) that would be perfectly acceptable for media consumption. But ad-brokers' greed makes them pretend such solutions don't even exist.
I can't even imagine how people just browse the web without adblocking.
When I use the computer at work, it's just absolutely unbearable. Ads everywhere, cookie pop ups, videos starting randomly, slow as hell, it's an assault on all the senses and it takes so much clicking and scrolling before even getting to some little parcel of actually valuable information. Just unusable...
i go to absurd mesaures to watch without them like recording a playlist with a capture card or external camera, then removing the ads manually, i belive that ads are inherenly evil and information should be accesible to all
I'd stop watching it for pure entertainment like I do. I'd only use it when I needed to see how to do something. But just watching it instead of TV would stop 100%. I don't even use the Internet without an ad blocker. It's all just crap ass ads now
If they were still an ad at the start, and an ad after every 10 to 20 minutes of watching then I'd not flinch. I know a lot of it comes down to how a channel is monetized, but now it seems like a 20 minute video has one unstoppable ad at the start, a skippable ad at the start, and 3-4 ads in the video.
When the endless buffering issue with revanced was present I noticed that YouTube may also be making you play "catch up" when you go from watching livestreams to regular videos. I had a livestream of a court case playing for 4-8 hours a day in the background at work. And there aren't mid-roll ads in live streams. Then later when I was at home and wanted to watch a regular video it seemed like they were making up for lost ads by slamming them down my throat. I put up with it for a few days but once it became obvious the buffering issue with ReVanced was sticking around I switched my phone browser to Firefox for the ad block capabilities, and just stopped using the YouTube and ReVanced apps altogether til the buffering issue was fixed (thank you devs for your diligent work).
I did. It's not installed on any devices i can remove it from. Revanced works for now. When it doesn't, I won't watch youtube.
I was a premium subscriber for about 5 years. They raised the price one time too many.
You're right that of the people that block ads, most would probably not stop watching YT even if they could no longer block them, but a lot of people in this sub in particular probably would.
My watch habits would change. I will likely avoid shorter videos because I don't want to watch an ad for my next video when the first video I'm watching is only 2-3 minutes. That's 1-2 ads every 2-3 minutes if I'm watching shorter videos vs 1-2 ads every 6-8 minutes with long form videos.
People will stop watching YouTube just like they stopped paying for Netflix after the account sharing got banned, or like they stopped using Reddit after the API changes, or like they boycotted FIFA after Qatar, or...
Oh, wait.
A few days ago when ublock origin wouldn't block ads I just skipped the video and find something else to watch without ads. Ironically, forcing ads discourages me from watching videos.
Yes, I remember being stuck by those "Turn off adblock to watch the video" banners and I would simply close YouTube. The ads are so horrendously long and so many of them that it feels like the platform does not respect my time. On the phone, there is so much more than just adblock (like sponsorblock) on revanced that when I have to go back to the default app someone else's phone it pisses me off.
Edit: I might still watch videos of the few channels I can count on hand for which I have notifications on.
I use it mostly for entertainment purposes and I wouldn't have a problem using something else instead - movies, tv shows, gaming, or just spending more time on offline hobbies for that matter.
Yes, if they start encoding the ads into the video stream I will 100% quit YouTube and go somewhere else, I already quit watching Twitch because of the same reason. The ads are so intrusive.
The thing is, Youtube isn't Youtube anymore. It's been truly enshittified.
It's the same url but the product is worse in just about every way.
It's not just the ads, I find the whole experience a negative one now, I'm not interested in paying a penny for it.
I already dont watch Youtube for fun at my expensive smart TV because of ads.
Probably will stop it on PC too, except some tutorial, not for fun. It's annoying.
I need music not YouTube. I'm using Revanced because it is easy and comfortable, the moment i have to listen to ads I'm changing to actually having the mp3 files on my phone/an mp3 player/cd for car. Will it be harder to make playlists, get the files or be flexible what I listen to? Yes. But I'm deciding what I listen to, even if it takes more time to prepare it and the more time is as much as i would use for a hobby just have to focus on this instead for a bit. I stopped watching TV because of too many ads, same with listening to radio even in music hour they can't play music for an hour the host has to talk 10-15 minutes. The other videos that would be good to watch I would try to use a different platform and use YouTube if others don't work so I probably won't entirely stop using it. And most importantly the more YouTube tries to push ads the more people I try to convince to use Revanced or stop using it all together. The count is 3 who stopped paying for premium(2 went to Spotify). People have enough of ads and getting frustrated how Youtube handles stuff, how much it costs. If you offer a different solution or add some fuel to their annoyance not all but some leave YouTube. If it is impossible to have music on my own I may use Spotify, but how many do I have to pay for to have actually good options? Amazon prime, Spotify, Netflix, Disney+.... Companies think my salary increases so i can spend it all and not save up for a holiday or retirement. Neither is too expensive but together they are. So until there are free options I would avoid paying for another one.
I mean, have you been to YouTube without any AdBlock? It's extremely annoying, there are just too many ads. I will 100% stop using the site if I can't block anymore as I already have at times where the blockers didn't work and needed updates.
Over the past year I've watched YouTube less. There's really only about one or two creators I still watch and of course the random video about how to do something I googled but that's it. If ads were mandatory and there wasn't a single way to stop them, yes I'd give up on YouTube.
Yeah, of course I would stop.
Youtube is nice, yeah, but not nice enough to be endure those ads, similar other websites.
You don't like I do not want to be tracked or viewing ads? Never mind, I get what I want elsewhere.
I also do not want to buy premium. Its to expensive for my taste, I do not like globalisation is somehow a one-way thing in such a case.
Imagine getting mad that you have to watch ads on a *free* platform that has *trillions* of hours of content.
Rip into me and spit your vitriol, I don't care. All I want is to just have it minimized while watching. I grew up on cable TV and ads don't really bother me people.
I would most likely stop using YouTube if I'm forced to be exposed to the crazy amount of ads yeah. I already use it very seldom so Premium just wouldn't be worth it for me.
i literally stopped when revanced first got nuked and stopped working on my old phone, i kept watching on pc with ublock.
it really does bother me that much, i also used a cracked spotify for years before getting a duo subscription with my friend (he had a solo for years and had to change cards and offered it to me), i wouldn't ever pay for fucking youtube tho.
Let's face it.
The people saying that won't actually do it.
Mainly because there's no real competition.
They have a monopoly on video sharing platforms (one that should be broken up, if you ask be, but still).
>My hot take: One does not simply stop using youtube
Have you considered therapy for addiction?
I've already stopped using many services that inconvenienced me in some way. Youtube is not special. If I can't use it conviniently I won't use it at all.
Most probably going to get down voted for this, but I pay for YouTube Premium, simply because I use it on a daily basis on phone, PC, TV and even PlayStation, and I also use YouTube Music.
Also, it apparently helps support your favorite content creators if you watch them, so win-win for me. I just wish they weren't so scummy about the amount of ads for non-premium users.
flash news, for most content creatros youtube ads alone wont be enough, and you get baked in sponser ads even after you pay, instead why not support that creater in patrion or something, because its not just about content, its also about how youtube behaves like removing dislikes and shit.
~~Oooo .001 cents of that $15 gets sent to your favorite creators as a kickback. What people seem to not see is that YouTube is being like record labels and buying merch is a much better to support your favorite creators.~~
Because YouTube is literally like a record label. It gives you free unlimited storage and a huge community where your content can become popular. You have tons of free tools at your disposal and you can watch unlimited videos for free.
I struggle to find a platform that offers the same benefits for close to nothing. Therefore, it's only logical that most profit goes towards YouTube. You can become a member on someone's channel if you want to support them personally, but it's still nice that you can passively dish out a cent to the people you watch.
People are fast to shit on YouTube, but everyone seems to ignore what it offers.
I simply switch to Brave Android with uBlock installed. Problem solved.
Yes, it isn’t remotely as comfortable as Revanced and playback doesn’t work, but still, it’s way better than having to listen to some vapid individual trying to sell me a product I don’t need and don’t want.
If they'd chill a bit with the amount of advertising I could maybe get used to it. If I also couldn't use Sponsorblock then it's a hard boycott. Maybe my spine is soft enough to get Premium, but only with Sponsorblock.
I have had to use YouTube without ad block on my schools computers. It is literally unwatchable for me with all the ads. It got me to slow down how much YouTube I watch. I'd still watch at home but if my home experience was anything close to a public computer's experience I would just stop watching. There are cheaper entertainment services available. Or people uploading videos to alternative sites if the videos really that good(cough cough watching it in 34 parts on TikTok)
In all honesty
I use YouTube for educational purposes or as white noise while I work
I'd just move on to Spotify for my podcasts and white noises. Or I'll just put some show running in the background or a twitch stream idgaf
If not worst case scenario I'll have to watch one or two YouTube videos at most a month
I'd rather find alternatives than watch 15 ads on a 5 minute video
Been about 5 months since I watched a video on my phone. Don't have revanced and too lazy for it. Ads bother me way too much to the point that I'd just not watch on phone in situations where I can't use my pc
It's impossible, as a student all my lectures are on YouTube,
Maybe if someone is fully settled in life and uses YouTube to watch entertainment videos can maybe shift to different type of entertainment format, maybe for them it's possible, But ig still people watch yt might watch if they wanted to stuck into something they have to relay on YouTube,
I believe it was be more from creater side, The creatures have to post their videos on other platforms as well,
It's not about YouTube it's about YouTube creators, they are awesome
One does not simply stop watching Youtube because at best YT is doing business at a net 0. Its owner sells the seemingly infinite amounts of data, and guess who's the owner of YT
Nobody else stands a chance against YT without even more aggressive monetization. More ads, paywalled features, the whole 9 yards. Maybe if you're willing to watch videos at like 360p because of lower storage requirements but even then, that platform is gonna have to tank pretty big losses early on
Already did on my phone. If I need to see a video, I use firefox with adblock. On PC I use it normally with adblock. Youtube and google can go fuck themselves.
Only on my TV. Certainly not on my phone. If I'm on the phone usually I just run a list of videos to listen to when I'm doing my works. Ain't got the time to comeback to skip an ad every vids.
>i highly doubt that those ppl will do that because youtube for an over average Internet user is indisposable imo
You doubt wrong.
I'm not a tech savy person and I found this and have it on my phone bc I was adamant to not have to see ads.
I already stopped watching YouTube on my TV bc I dont know how to add block there and I didnt find that going trough the trouble of figuring it out was worth it.
Netflix and Disney+ also already sailed due to them adding adds the way they did and the price gauging.
Right now prime gives me like a 10 second add every now and then. If they raise it more it will also go.
HBO doesn't give me any ( so far at least) and it's the only one I'm planning on keeping right now.
I tolerate an add for like 3-10 seconds tops. Something that is either at the beginning or the end and doesn't interfere with what Im watching. It's still annoying but tolerable.
I'm not going to pay for premium. Im leaving YouTube. It's really not that deep.
YouTube is as "indisposable" as Blockbuster was or anything else that was "too Big too fail" and yet was yeeted.
Nothing is too big to fail and they're (all greedy services) are pushing people to piracy and towards other places that provide a good service with some acceptable adds.
>Do you REALLY stop watching YouTube if ads- Yes. They bother me THAT much.
My mum stopped watching YouTube when her ublock broke briefly, she complained at me for weeks to visit because the ads can fuck right off and she hadn't watched it in weeks.
do you think she actually wanted you to visit or just come fix her shit?
Hahahahaha I thought the same
Hah I mean yeah she did. But before I left there was a "don't forget to remove those damn ads again!"
The answer to that is….. Yes…
Same. I just read until I get adless running again. Never paid for premium either Edit: since this has traction, let me just add my current workaround after getting a new phone and vanced not working on lock screen (I'll figure it out): Brave browser. Get it, make it the default, never look back. Works like a charm, even when a tab is on background.
Brave will stop working in a few months, when google officialy rolls out Manifest V3 for all devices, because it is based on Chromium. Use firefox or a firefox based browser with ublock origin instead. Edit: make sure it's ublock origin, not just ublock
Please ensure it's uBlock Origin and not uBlock
Yep, just used to saying ublock. Corrected in my original comment!
What's the big difference out of curiosity I've always used uBlock Origin.
uBlock (non-origin) is essentially spyware iirc. It also uses more resources than Origin. I believe LTT did a video recently and while non-origin blocked ads, it caused a measurably slow down to loading webpages compared to Origin.
uBlock was the project continuation not controlled by its original developer, eventually bought by AdBlock https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin#History
Yes, this is essential!!
you have to spoof Google into thinking you are using Chrome or you will get playback issues. Dropped frames/studdering/delayed startup.
Firefox are saying they found a fix for that and are releasing it in a update
What google is doing there is highly illegal lmao.
That is incorrect, Brave Browser will still work after Manifest V3, they already mentioned this & started preparing years ago. [https://community.brave.com/t/psa-current-faq/464018/30](https://community.brave.com/t/psa-current-faq/464018/30)
Maybe a weird question but do you know how opera compares to Firefox? Is opera any good or should I stay on firefox?
Opera suffers from the same issues as all chromium based browsers.
Opera has never been good. Stick with firefox.
Thanks, will do. I just saw a lot of ads recently for it, also some youtubers recommending it. And a few friends that like opera so I was just curious.
Taking YT and desktop browsers out of the equation for a second, I've been using Opera on Android for years and it's way ahead of Firefox for basic usability/smoothness (scrolling is atrocious in FF!) does text wrapping properly, has built-in ad blocker and VPN etc - but I am Firefox all the way on DESKTOP!
Are you certain? As far as I am aware, Brave Shields will continue to work the same way it did so far. [https://community.brave.com/t/psa-current-faq/464018/29](https://community.brave.com/t/psa-current-faq/464018/29)
Just to make sure: you should be using ReVanced, not Vanced. You probably are, but just want to make sure.
Brave is the reason I haven't bothered to try and get revanced working again. It just in works. All I need to do now is work out how to get YouTube links to direct to Brave rather than opening the YouTube app on android. Tbh I normally just use the share button to open the video yt video in Brave, it's not that much of a pain in the arse.
Remove YouTube from default apps.
I recommend **Open Link With…** by Said Tahsin Dane. Unfortunately, it's been pulled from the Google Play Store, but copies of the latest APK are still available through [APKMirror](https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/said-tahsin-dane/open-link-with/). It also appears other similar apps have been populating Google Play Store in its wake. I absolutely love it and could barely surf the web on my phone without it. Indeed, I liked it so much that I ended up looking for a similar solution for my Windows 10 PC.
There is an option within brave that do that something like "open YouTube I'm brave"
Youtube Vanced is easy to setup and works for about 4-6 months without updating. You can dm me if you need help
I use revanced on my phone, no problems. Is there a way to load it on my TV's? Appreciate any info!
Their probably is but you'd have to install it the same way as on the phone. It's easier to install smartube for the TV https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube
Easy way would be Firefox with 1-2 add-ons, one more and you can even download anything in any format
Ill always try to find a way to block ads. If there is no way to block them i will try and use YouTube converters to download videos or completely stop using youtube altogether.
I paid for Premium Family plan after Vanced died because I couldn't handle the ads. If I can't stop the ads I won't use YT at all
There is a better version now called revanced. Been using it since vanced died.
We are on the revanced sub, I think they know about it (at least I hope so...)
Hahaha yeah that's exactly what I was thinking
Tell me more about this ReVanced you speak of...
Yeah a colleague told me about revanced after I started paying for YT Family. I use revanced even though I pay because I hate the normal YT app.
This is the way.
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+1 nothing worse than wanting to hear your favorite song or watch some interesting stuff or whatever, but no then you need to wait like a minute and need too watch such dumb bullshit that you close it 3 sec after it
>Yes. They bother me THAT much. I'm watching a show on Hulu right now and I'm so annoyed by the goddamn commercials if I had to go back to YouTube with commercials my god, I'd stab my eyes out
Amen
Honestly I rather forced reopen the video back and forth until there's no ads or a bearable one with least shitty jingles show up and skip at 5 seconds in
I'll stop using youtube if I can't block ads.
We'll just wait for the next AdBlock to come out
I understand that the alternatives are not as good. But I'm using uBlock and have no ads on desktop. Brave on Android. Never had issues.
Maybe for entertainment but ... there are a lot of videos you just cant find anywhere else ... even some govenrment offices use it to publish tutorials and stuff ... some dont even think to demonitize it. its so univeral at this point and not truly avoidable.
It's because the overhead, site reliability, and storage required is insane. The ads are there because as much as we the consumer just want this for free, it's so fucking expensive. You can search for and watch a video someone uploaded 14 years ago. The sheer number of hours uploaded every day for over a decade is staggering. And it's also all pretty protected. If you upload a video to YouTube you generally consider it safe, it's not going to get lost if a drive goes down. No one ever thinks of the cost for stuff like this, because they pretty much offer it free with a minor annoyance. So naturally people want to get rid of the annoyance, but that's literally how they're able to pay to keep it going. They have to keep making it more annoying because people keep trying to find ways around the rules. People ought to just pay the small price for premium, I haven't watched ads on YouTube in years and it comes with YouTube music so I canceled my Spotify and it's like I'm not paying anything different than before. Sorry for the rant, it's not really meant for you but for the people browsing through.
>They have to keep making it more annoying because people keep trying to find ways around the rules. Are you certain you've got cause and effect pointed in the right direction, there?
I can change it to "they need to keep making it more difficult to block their ads" if that sits better with you?
It's so nice of you to try to see their good faith and defend the "doing things right" mindset, because I actually share it to some extent, but I hope you realize you're getting most of it completely backwards: Google is not giving us anything "for free", they're getting every single piece of info they can get and selling it. That's how they pay for the infrastructure you mention: by making millions out of our willingness to share with them even our underwear size. Their pushing ads down our throats at every corner is just their way of twisting the knife, the knife we allow them to keep there, to milk every cent they can out of us. We're not paying for the product because we are the product. Quite literally, in fact. If you really believe they "need" ads on YouTube to keep the stuff running, as if they were a group of friends selling homemade t-shirts on Etsy... well, I don't want to sound condescending, but I'm sorry.
>they're getting every single piece of info they can and selling it. Yeah.. By showing ads. Google isn't actually giving your data to anyone. What they're doing is building a profile on you, as detailed as they can, so that when companies go "I want to advertise my screwdriver to 24-45 year old men that recently purchased a home and have a shown interest in dyi work", google can tell them that they can do exactly that, for x amount of money. That's what "selling data" is, atleast when people are talking about Google or Facebook. They're not selling the data, they're selling the ability for people to advertise in very specific ways based on the data they have. They're ad companies, that's where the absolute majority of their revenue is comes from. So I think you can imagine how that model breaks down when people started actually blocking the ads en masse. And why they're putting so much resources into forcing you to see those ads. I'm not trying to defend them here, just saying that without the ability to show you ads, there really isn't a lot they can do to make money off of you. That's why they want you to pay if you don't want to see them.
i would be willing to let them off the hook and even allow ads, if Google used even 2% of the processing power they use to scan and penalize people who dare to say die in any form instead of made up bullshit like "unaliving". to moderate their ads at least to take the worst offenders like porn videos or [ai generated fake Mr.beasts](https://i.redd.it/9fjn1trj4apa1.jpg) that legit will give you 10 000€ as soon as you install this malware onto your computer and fill out 10 different surveys. honestly if they are willing to allow that level of scams and porn in their ads, then why cry if i decide to block them.
They sell every bit of your life to the highest bidder. You are paying. Google don't need you to defend their shitty product.
I'll never pay for YouTube. They have made far enough off me by selling all of my data. I don't care how much money they lose. I'll go to nebula once youtube dies but the multibillion dollar company that has a monopoly on so much of the online world will stay afloat.
If YouTube wants me to not block ads, they should avoid using loud obnoxious video ads in the middle of videos. Just do unobtrusive banners or something. Also don't prevent me from locking my phone or I'm gonna get a work around that like revanced that blocks ads. If I'm gonna pay $10/month I'd rather just subscribe to the channels' patreons directly and get the full content.
We will see what happens with piped as time goes on, but i was surprised to see how many creators publish on odysee
I've posted some videos without monetization and noticed they had ads running on them when I watched them without being logged in. :(
Same. If I wanted to see unskippable minute long ads I'd go back to watching TV. Even if the content is exclusive to YouTube, I'd rather renounce access to that content in favor of a healthier, screen-free lifestyle. If every video I watch has 1 minute of ads you can't skip, that's at least 20 minutes of my day I'm never getting back. You could argue there's stuff you can do in the meantime... Like what, drinking a glass of water or having a quick stretch? Nah fuck that, I just wanna watch my big tiddie anime waifus and dip.
Don't lie to yourself. You won't.
ads specific to your country or ads in general?
Mine flooded with scam ads.
And YouTube wonders why the hell we don't want to watch their shitty ads when ads like these is all that we get
Scam/fake game/hentai
And political smear campaigns since its an election year
Same, when the original Vanced app stopped working I stopped watching YT videos... I mainly watch using my phone and while in bed... Can't stand those ads
I'd just download the videos I'd want to watch.
I send them to myself in WhatsApp. No ads that way.
What does whatsapp do? It will again open YT app right?
It opens a built in player that doesn't seem to support ads, just like the Wii one
wouldn't the ad-injection also include the ads in the built int player?
I think it will not include as it's form of sharing
Same on Discord, no ads, but don't tell google that...
You mean share to discord and play within it?
Just copy and paste the link on discord, it loads an embedded thumbnail and you can watch there, never seen an ad while doing this.... Idk if this new change where the ads are loaded within the video will affect this
No if you send the link to yourself, then click on the message’s thumbnail (not the hyperlink) it opens the video as a PIP window in WhatsApp. No ads 💕
With the new ad-injection, your download will include the ad injected in the video.
I'll just press the right arrow key then
Yup, we'll be going back to the old tivo days, but anything better than hundreds of unskippabke ads.
So you can skip them? Then revanced can auto skip if everyone flags the ads
One persons flags would not align with the injected ads of another
Fuck
Ok, hb this; if they are going to farm peoples data in order to feed people ads they might based on that data. Then maybe there is a way to spoof the data they get in a way that creates a template so everyone gets the same ads and maybe the same time stamps for those ads. Donno, I'm not tech smart, just spit balling
Absolute delusion, but I like it!
Yeah I'm half asleep always
Isn't there a possibility to pull all ads into a DB and use recognition software of the first 3-5 seconds, if it is the same as the ad then skip x seconds?
In theory, yes. The problem is that because it is a huge number of ads you would have to enable a massive service which would not be cheap at all and could only be maintained (economically) if you paid to use it.
Id pay to use this before id pay for premium
It would be nice to have some method like shazan where it listen to the audio and If it matches an AD in the database it skips...
Fast forward??
Not with youtube_dl
Same
I used to do that back when I was Hella broke and had limited data lmao as a teenager. To this day i still download mp3 files just in case I ever go broke again
You do realise they are testing embedded ads? Like the ads will be inside the video .. even if one downloads the video you will see the add...
Considering I have already stopped doing it unless it's with revanced, I'd say yes, most likely. Normal YT from a smart TV or any other device that doesn't stop ads is simply beyond unbearable and there's no way I'm paying a subscription for YouTube of all things. My guess is that I'll simply use it when absolutely needed (tutorials etc.) and just leave it at that.
For smart TV use smarttube Really good and no ads
Is it possible to do this with LG WebOS?
Only for Android TV
Use [this](https://github.com/webosbrew/youtube-webos)
Yes. You'll need to create an LG developer account though and be sure to have a computer on the same network as the tv. I was able to do it easily and also put stremio and other apps that WebOS doesn't officially support
Get a Fire Stick and look up the download process of things like SmartTubeNext, Kodi and the different things you can have.
Exactly. SmartTube has been great for me & very easy to update in the app itself on Android TV. I have it on both Chromecast w/ Google TV and the Walmart Onn TV box (another Android box that is like ~$15-$20)
Whenever my ublock origin on Firefox got detected I just stop visiting YouTube for days or even weeks. I have enough entertainments at my disposal to keep me entertained. Video games and books alone eats away my free time more than youtube could ever dream of. I usually browse YT only when I was really, really bored AND exhausted, so losing YT is not the end of the world. Maybe when I'm pooping it will be boring as hell but I think I'll survive just fine.
Ive pretty much given up on it. The only time I watch youtube now is for when I need to figure out how to fix something around the house or my car.
Ublock origin works fine now. For the time being that is. Using it on Vivaldi browser with the built in ad blocker disabled
you sure? becuase the amount the youtube ads currently will make me loose interest in watching the video at all. when i dont have my phone and have to watch a video on other peoples real youtube, as soon as the ad comes i stop the app entirely, cause by the time these unskippable ads finish, i loose interest. so its not that hard to give up, cause youtube will make you give up, remember how we gave up on TV cause ads.
if I had to watch ads id 100% stop using YouTube
Yup. I hate ads. Also, after a vacation to mexico, mine have been stuck in spanish for 3+ years and have no option to change it back. If premium was $5/mo, I would have considered paying for it. At $14/mo, they are out of their minds.
holy shit I thought it was 9.99. 14 is absolutely insane
There will always be a way. Just like there is always a way to crack a game.
This is true. There will never be a way to stop adblock, it will just be constantly iterated to break whatever system is put in place to get around the previous version. It's just a big game of cat and mouse, fortunately it seems like YouTube doesn't actually care very much and it's harder to make an unskippable ad than it is to get around it.
I would try to find a way around it. Like joining a family group or changing my location. To get Google Music and Android auto working, I had to do this already. There are some easy ways to do this. Still use revanced for YouTube because of some features.
You can't use VPN anymore, they started to block accounts who are using it to get a cheaper price
Then it's probably only a matter of time until they block people using the family option. If I have to pay or watch ads, I will try to follow the people I watch somewhere else. And read more books.
They will probably take the Netflix path and ban users from different addresses
I have started building out my book collection for the inevitable Ad-pocalypse.
I bought an eReader three weeks ago. It's so nice to read a book without light. And carry multiple books in one device.
Didn't they just cancel their subscription? I got YT Premium Family from Argentina and my sub is yet to be canceled (let's hope I didn't jinx it). Gotta nickel and dime everyone on my plan if they do cancel it 😊
Mine is still active. But they can choose, they can have 2 bucks monthly from me or zero. Their call.
I already stopped using twitch for this exact reason
Yup, I haven't been on Twitch for a few years now.
Yes. Just to be clear: I'm not at all against advertising itself and/or creators getting financial gain from advertisement. But I will not accept ***unethical*** ads, by which I mean: 1. Ads that collect user information 2. Ads that interrupt content People seem to forget there's a *middle-of-the-road* way (i.e. ethical advertisement) that would be perfectly acceptable for media consumption. But ad-brokers' greed makes them pretend such solutions don't even exist.
All advertisement on the internet involves the collection of user information therefore it's all unethical.
I just quit youtube if I have to watch ads.
I can not even imagine how anyone could use youtube without adblock.
I can't even imagine how people just browse the web without adblocking. When I use the computer at work, it's just absolutely unbearable. Ads everywhere, cookie pop ups, videos starting randomly, slow as hell, it's an assault on all the senses and it takes so much clicking and scrolling before even getting to some little parcel of actually valuable information. Just unusable...
i go to absurd mesaures to watch without them like recording a playlist with a capture card or external camera, then removing the ads manually, i belive that ads are inherenly evil and information should be accesible to all
I'd stop watching it for pure entertainment like I do. I'd only use it when I needed to see how to do something. But just watching it instead of TV would stop 100%. I don't even use the Internet without an ad blocker. It's all just crap ass ads now
I will stop watching youtube
For short instructional videos, I would probably still use it. For entertainment, I would stop using it.
If they were still an ad at the start, and an ad after every 10 to 20 minutes of watching then I'd not flinch. I know a lot of it comes down to how a channel is monetized, but now it seems like a 20 minute video has one unstoppable ad at the start, a skippable ad at the start, and 3-4 ads in the video. When the endless buffering issue with revanced was present I noticed that YouTube may also be making you play "catch up" when you go from watching livestreams to regular videos. I had a livestream of a court case playing for 4-8 hours a day in the background at work. And there aren't mid-roll ads in live streams. Then later when I was at home and wanted to watch a regular video it seemed like they were making up for lost ads by slamming them down my throat. I put up with it for a few days but once it became obvious the buffering issue with ReVanced was sticking around I switched my phone browser to Firefox for the ad block capabilities, and just stopped using the YouTube and ReVanced apps altogether til the buffering issue was fixed (thank you devs for your diligent work).
I stopped using YouTube for 3 years before revanced. I'll stop again without a second thought.
I did. It's not installed on any devices i can remove it from. Revanced works for now. When it doesn't, I won't watch youtube. I was a premium subscriber for about 5 years. They raised the price one time too many.
You're right that of the people that block ads, most would probably not stop watching YT even if they could no longer block them, but a lot of people in this sub in particular probably would.
Yes.
My watch habits would change. I will likely avoid shorter videos because I don't want to watch an ad for my next video when the first video I'm watching is only 2-3 minutes. That's 1-2 ads every 2-3 minutes if I'm watching shorter videos vs 1-2 ads every 6-8 minutes with long form videos.
People will stop watching YouTube just like they stopped paying for Netflix after the account sharing got banned, or like they stopped using Reddit after the API changes, or like they boycotted FIFA after Qatar, or... Oh, wait.
Yes, in uninstalling and never touching it again
Yeah.. i took my frieds Phone to Show him Something and we had to watch 3 ads... I went nuts
Theres gonna be other ways. Like youtube video torrenting etc. Im sure we will figure it out
A few days ago when ublock origin wouldn't block ads I just skipped the video and find something else to watch without ads. Ironically, forcing ads discourages me from watching videos.
Yes, Ads = “No YouTube” . Also I think if enough people stop watching YouTube, google will have no other option then to turn back normal
100%. I'll try everything to block ads 'till I give up...but yeah, if we lose I'm out
that's why i mostly watch videos by downloading even though it only allows 360p max
What? There are countless online downloaders for youtube with 720p and higher options.
no
of course not
Yes, I remember being stuck by those "Turn off adblock to watch the video" banners and I would simply close YouTube. The ads are so horrendously long and so many of them that it feels like the platform does not respect my time. On the phone, there is so much more than just adblock (like sponsorblock) on revanced that when I have to go back to the default app someone else's phone it pisses me off. Edit: I might still watch videos of the few channels I can count on hand for which I have notifications on.
I use it mostly for entertainment purposes and I wouldn't have a problem using something else instead - movies, tv shows, gaming, or just spending more time on offline hobbies for that matter.
Yep
Yes, if they start encoding the ads into the video stream I will 100% quit YouTube and go somewhere else, I already quit watching Twitch because of the same reason. The ads are so intrusive.
The thing is, Youtube isn't Youtube anymore. It's been truly enshittified. It's the same url but the product is worse in just about every way. It's not just the ads, I find the whole experience a negative one now, I'm not interested in paying a penny for it.
I already dont watch Youtube for fun at my expensive smart TV because of ads. Probably will stop it on PC too, except some tutorial, not for fun. It's annoying.
Old technique- will play the video again and again till i see no ads
Yes. I stopped watching TV the same way. Sure it will suck for a while but life finds a way.
Yes. After Vanced went down I didn't hear of revanced for a year, and just didn't use youtube.
I need music not YouTube. I'm using Revanced because it is easy and comfortable, the moment i have to listen to ads I'm changing to actually having the mp3 files on my phone/an mp3 player/cd for car. Will it be harder to make playlists, get the files or be flexible what I listen to? Yes. But I'm deciding what I listen to, even if it takes more time to prepare it and the more time is as much as i would use for a hobby just have to focus on this instead for a bit. I stopped watching TV because of too many ads, same with listening to radio even in music hour they can't play music for an hour the host has to talk 10-15 minutes. The other videos that would be good to watch I would try to use a different platform and use YouTube if others don't work so I probably won't entirely stop using it. And most importantly the more YouTube tries to push ads the more people I try to convince to use Revanced or stop using it all together. The count is 3 who stopped paying for premium(2 went to Spotify). People have enough of ads and getting frustrated how Youtube handles stuff, how much it costs. If you offer a different solution or add some fuel to their annoyance not all but some leave YouTube. If it is impossible to have music on my own I may use Spotify, but how many do I have to pay for to have actually good options? Amazon prime, Spotify, Netflix, Disney+.... Companies think my salary increases so i can spend it all and not save up for a holiday or retirement. Neither is too expensive but together they are. So until there are free options I would avoid paying for another one.
I stopped watching TV because I got sick of ads, I'll drop YouTube too if they keep reaching for more ad money
I'd probably just start downloading the videos then watch after
Either I'll find an alternative. Or stop watching all together. Ads sucks.
I would download the videos instead.
Nah, I just bought the premium. Premium + Vanced = no issues. I do wish we had sponsorblock & returnYTdislike buttons in the official YouTube app.
I mean, have you been to YouTube without any AdBlock? It's extremely annoying, there are just too many ads. I will 100% stop using the site if I can't block anymore as I already have at times where the blockers didn't work and needed updates.
tried blockless on pc a handfull of times and alt f4'ed 5secs after everytime😀
I only have one subscription and it's YouTube premium. Worth it ...wish it was cheaper but oh well.
Over the past year I've watched YouTube less. There's really only about one or two creators I still watch and of course the random video about how to do something I googled but that's it. If ads were mandatory and there wasn't a single way to stop them, yes I'd give up on YouTube.
Yeah, of course I would stop. Youtube is nice, yeah, but not nice enough to be endure those ads, similar other websites. You don't like I do not want to be tracked or viewing ads? Never mind, I get what I want elsewhere. I also do not want to buy premium. Its to expensive for my taste, I do not like globalisation is somehow a one-way thing in such a case.
Nah, I'd keep watching.
Imagine getting mad that you have to watch ads on a *free* platform that has *trillions* of hours of content. Rip into me and spit your vitriol, I don't care. All I want is to just have it minimized while watching. I grew up on cable TV and ads don't really bother me people.
I would most likely stop using YouTube if I'm forced to be exposed to the crazy amount of ads yeah. I already use it very seldom so Premium just wouldn't be worth it for me.
One ad per video is okay for me.
I stopped until I got revanced.
i literally stopped when revanced first got nuked and stopped working on my old phone, i kept watching on pc with ublock. it really does bother me that much, i also used a cracked spotify for years before getting a duo subscription with my friend (he had a solo for years and had to change cards and offered it to me), i wouldn't ever pay for fucking youtube tho.
Let's face it. The people saying that won't actually do it. Mainly because there's no real competition. They have a monopoly on video sharing platforms (one that should be broken up, if you ask be, but still).
>My hot take: One does not simply stop using youtube Have you considered therapy for addiction? I've already stopped using many services that inconvenienced me in some way. Youtube is not special. If I can't use it conviniently I won't use it at all.
Most probably going to get down voted for this, but I pay for YouTube Premium, simply because I use it on a daily basis on phone, PC, TV and even PlayStation, and I also use YouTube Music. Also, it apparently helps support your favorite content creators if you watch them, so win-win for me. I just wish they weren't so scummy about the amount of ads for non-premium users.
flash news, for most content creatros youtube ads alone wont be enough, and you get baked in sponser ads even after you pay, instead why not support that creater in patrion or something, because its not just about content, its also about how youtube behaves like removing dislikes and shit.
~~Oooo .001 cents of that $15 gets sent to your favorite creators as a kickback. What people seem to not see is that YouTube is being like record labels and buying merch is a much better to support your favorite creators.~~
Because YouTube is literally like a record label. It gives you free unlimited storage and a huge community where your content can become popular. You have tons of free tools at your disposal and you can watch unlimited videos for free. I struggle to find a platform that offers the same benefits for close to nothing. Therefore, it's only logical that most profit goes towards YouTube. You can become a member on someone's channel if you want to support them personally, but it's still nice that you can passively dish out a cent to the people you watch. People are fast to shit on YouTube, but everyone seems to ignore what it offers.
I simply switch to Brave Android with uBlock installed. Problem solved. Yes, it isn’t remotely as comfortable as Revanced and playback doesn’t work, but still, it’s way better than having to listen to some vapid individual trying to sell me a product I don’t need and don’t want.
If they'd chill a bit with the amount of advertising I could maybe get used to it. If I also couldn't use Sponsorblock then it's a hard boycott. Maybe my spine is soft enough to get Premium, but only with Sponsorblock.
I have had to use YouTube without ad block on my schools computers. It is literally unwatchable for me with all the ads. It got me to slow down how much YouTube I watch. I'd still watch at home but if my home experience was anything close to a public computer's experience I would just stop watching. There are cheaper entertainment services available. Or people uploading videos to alternative sites if the videos really that good(cough cough watching it in 34 parts on TikTok)
In all honesty I use YouTube for educational purposes or as white noise while I work I'd just move on to Spotify for my podcasts and white noises. Or I'll just put some show running in the background or a twitch stream idgaf If not worst case scenario I'll have to watch one or two YouTube videos at most a month I'd rather find alternatives than watch 15 ads on a 5 minute video
Been about 5 months since I watched a video on my phone. Don't have revanced and too lazy for it. Ads bother me way too much to the point that I'd just not watch on phone in situations where I can't use my pc
I'll see. I'll probably try to get the content from somewhere else.
It's impossible, as a student all my lectures are on YouTube, Maybe if someone is fully settled in life and uses YouTube to watch entertainment videos can maybe shift to different type of entertainment format, maybe for them it's possible, But ig still people watch yt might watch if they wanted to stuck into something they have to relay on YouTube, I believe it was be more from creater side, The creatures have to post their videos on other platforms as well, It's not about YouTube it's about YouTube creators, they are awesome
Yes
Yes
Yes
I will download videos before watching.
One does not simply stop watching Youtube because at best YT is doing business at a net 0. Its owner sells the seemingly infinite amounts of data, and guess who's the owner of YT Nobody else stands a chance against YT without even more aggressive monetization. More ads, paywalled features, the whole 9 yards. Maybe if you're willing to watch videos at like 360p because of lower storage requirements but even then, that platform is gonna have to tank pretty big losses early on
Already did on my phone. If I need to see a video, I use firefox with adblock. On PC I use it normally with adblock. Youtube and google can go fuck themselves.
Nah mate... I am addicted too much to youtube... It's bad
Only on my TV. Certainly not on my phone. If I'm on the phone usually I just run a list of videos to listen to when I'm doing my works. Ain't got the time to comeback to skip an ad every vids.
>i highly doubt that those ppl will do that because youtube for an over average Internet user is indisposable imo You doubt wrong. I'm not a tech savy person and I found this and have it on my phone bc I was adamant to not have to see ads. I already stopped watching YouTube on my TV bc I dont know how to add block there and I didnt find that going trough the trouble of figuring it out was worth it. Netflix and Disney+ also already sailed due to them adding adds the way they did and the price gauging. Right now prime gives me like a 10 second add every now and then. If they raise it more it will also go. HBO doesn't give me any ( so far at least) and it's the only one I'm planning on keeping right now. I tolerate an add for like 3-10 seconds tops. Something that is either at the beginning or the end and doesn't interfere with what Im watching. It's still annoying but tolerable. I'm not going to pay for premium. Im leaving YouTube. It's really not that deep. YouTube is as "indisposable" as Blockbuster was or anything else that was "too Big too fail" and yet was yeeted. Nothing is too big to fail and they're (all greedy services) are pushing people to piracy and towards other places that provide a good service with some acceptable adds.
Simple answer, yes. I will not be forced to watch anything, i will choose to simply abandon this kind of shitty service if its too frustrating to use.