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I use the official YouTube app with premium. But, it glitches and reloads on its own after a while. Not to mention the UI frame rate getting capped to the video frame rate when playing a video.
3rd party apps let me download and browse the videos in a better way and I can also download them in 4k resolution in HDR format.
finally
This article is just a youtube premium ad π€’
As far as what you get when you go Premium, you won't see any more ads within the app or the videos that you're watching. Plus, you'll gain access to background play, along with being able to download videos on the go. And perhaps what makes this plan even more worthwhile is that you get access to YouTube Music, which features over 100 million commercial free songs. Now, the one drawback is that these features don't come for free, with a subscription costing $13.99 per month in the US.
We need better alternatives
Also YT premium is not a good solution as it does nothing for privacy
Also YT premium is not a good solution as it does nothing for privacy
Neither is accessing any Google service in the first place, ReVanced or not.
Video is nearly impossible to host in a sustainable way. The bandwidth usage is among the most expensive things you can host. The only way youβre getting something better than YouTube is if itβs tax funded somehow.
Nebula is very sustainable.
The 20mbit bandwidth of a 4k video might have been a lot 10 years ago, but it's child's play now.
Piped exists and has continued to work smoothly for me this whole time. There are many public instances but running your own is best
@Wahots guess they'll do just like they did with ublock origin Β―β \β _β (β γβ )β _β /β Β―.
Interesting, I guess we will have to see how quickly and widely this is enforced. I haven't used the official YouTube app for a very long time and have relied heavily on third party alternatives (Vanced/ReVanced, NewPipe, LibreTube, Grayjay). There is absolutely no way I am paying $17 a month for YouTube so I think a family plan would probably be the best option, though at this point I think I'd be more likely to just abandon the platform altogether.
If they hadn't gotten so obnoxious with ads that it was impossible to use YouTube without blocking them, I wouldn't have used the vanced/revanced stuff in the first place.
They find a way to prevent using those, I'm out totally, including on the few devices I didn't care about playing the ads because it was just background noise.
Oh well
Wouldn't mind the ads if they weren't deliberately twice as loud as the music! That's just fucking rude
I even had Youtube premium for a bit. Revanced is nice just to dial back some of the bells and whistles that isn't relevant to the video platform. The official app feels clunky.
yeah I use revanced + YT premium for sponsor block. Haven't experienced any issues yet though
I had YouTube Premium after Vanced was killed. I gave it a fair go. No ads- great, it is now back to how it was a decade ago. But also no SponsorBlock - and my God, how many channels I realised I couldn't listen to anymore when 50% of every video was an ad for one of three online services or games I'm definitely not going to ever pay for. So now I just... don't watch YouTube on my phone. Hurray?
Seriously, if the ads are supposedly worth β¬15 a month, pay the fucking YouTubers enough that I don't have to listen to a linguist try to sell me WarThunder
I know, right? So many creators even explain why they do that, it's because they can't make enough from youtube to do this full time, but they can from raid shadow legends.
YouTube premium would be worth something if all the creativity their creators have to use to make a living despite the pay was used for better content.
I mainly watch it on my Roku TV and it is TERRIBLE. Idk if they've updated it in years.
Id really like to use revanced while paying for premium if it means it doesn't get borked every x months and I don't risk getting banned, kind of like Spotify tolerates 3rd party clients as long as they are premium accounts
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Get fucked Website.
I'm sure they meant "in the end" and not "it's about time".
The entire article is a YouTube premium advertisement.