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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Isn't a cheaper subscription better than no subscription Google?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I can watch Youtube without ads using an adblocker or NewPipe. Why anyone buys Premium is beyond me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Tubular is a fork of NewPipe with SponsorBlock and ReturnYouTubeDislike integration. LibreTube is another great option, which uses the Piped backend. They also have a Lemmy community, and you can check them out on Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@libretube

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Smarttubenext. I even install it on every hotel TV I use.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Open browser and go to piped/individious page. If your console doesn't have browser than suffer.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Could be one of the many reasons such as ensuring their favorite creators get paid for their views and end users not being tech savvy enough to know about ad blockers and NewPipe.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I can donate. No reason for Google to get most of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

That's a good approach. But people aren't tech savvy enough to install NewPipe in order to avoid ads. Paying for YT premium is the most user friendly way to avoid ads and support creators.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

That's a poor reason. Google takes a big cut, just pay the YouTuber(s) directly through their favourite donation service; most have at least one these days. This is like when people claim they pay for Spotify because they "care about supporting musicians". It's delusional at best and a straight up lie at worst.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The article is only based on a handful of accounts from reddit, but it would be quite funny considering how many people I've encountered who do this and think they are geniuses or morally superior because they don't use an ad-blocker. Let's see how they feel after a fee hike. :)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't really understand who you are getting at here. Everyone I know uses this combined with regular ad blockers. Anyway, once they figure out how to properly inject ads into the stream blocking is going to get really hard.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I would not pay anyway. This is a principled position after I was shown a fraudulent advertisement 10 times in one evening (which used children with cancer to manipulate emotions)

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