Absurd to pay so much just to remove ads only for smart TVs. There are easy ways to block ads on phones and computers.
this post was submitted on 24 Sep 2024
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I've been paying $25 CAD to support five family accounts and prevent my daughter from seeing ads during her monitored viewing. If that price goes up 30-50%, I'm fucking done. This was an expense I was willing to incur, as YouTube is literally the only media platform my family even uses anymore. Better price than cable and multiple streaming platforms, and (again) I'm paying that for five active accounts.
If anyone knows of a way for me to adblock through my Roku TV so that we can continue watching YouTube on it without a Premium account, I'm all ears. The TV is the only reason I'm not just using uBlock to begin with. I'm really not into the idea of hooking a laptop up via HDMI if I can avoid it. Just feels like a sloppy user experience for anyone else in the household wanting to watch YouTube on TV.
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 😔.
~~Pi-hole, although really you can accomplish network ad blocking with just about any spare computer.~~
JK refer to the comment below mine
Pihole doesn't block YouTube ads as it's only a dns blocker, Google serves the ads from the same servers as the videos from what I understand. Adguard home works the same.
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The nice thing about hiking your prices by 50% is that unless a whole third of your users quit, you haven't lost anything.
you haven't lost anything
Apart from all future customers that will now choose another service
That's the good thing about a monopoly. You don't have to worry about customers choosing another service.
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It's so odd that a platform that relies so much on user content charges as much as or more than network streaming services. The market hold is leaking into it (and out).
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I've been paying $5pm for family premium for years.
It couldn't last forever, I guess.
Prob a reason to leave youtube