There's the enshitification we know and love! Freetube for desktop and Tubular for mobile is how I've been watching YT for over a year now, and it's great!
this post was submitted on 24 Sep 2024
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feel sorry for MFs who dont know Revanced
Been paying for years now, got a 50% price hike. Canceled on the spot. I like the creators I follow, but recommendations have sucked for me for several months now anyway.
Any advice for streaming ad free on Chromecast or Samsung tv?
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And this is what happens cause the vast mayority of people don't give a rats ass as long as they can consume
Welcome to the monopoly
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Was actually considering buying premium now that I use YouTube for music more than Spotify, but then the ad stuff happened and now this. Going to avoid it out of principle now.
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Unless the backlash is a huge percentage of users immediately stop using the service, they won't care. They already calculated how many users they'd lose and how much more profit they get to bring in off of those who decide to stay.
I hadn't realized how high it was until seeing this and canceled mine.
maybe its time people redirect their money to supporting peertube
Funny, I still pay them my same flat fee of nada
If history is any indication, they will complain and no significant number of them will cancel.
The AdBlockalypse.
I've been paying for YouTube premium and have been watching a ton of YouTube for years. But I've been finding myself watching less and less YouTube lately and this might be the push to finally cancel and back away some from the platform.
You gotta make up for a lack of innovation but just price gouging customers on absolutely everything. I only have Spotify because of the radio function but otherwise all of these services are absolute dog shit. They don’t offer anything new. They’ve just created a new set of moats for features, songs, videos, television and games. Eventually this system has to collapse because treating customers like employees that have no choice but to stay will lead people to innovate on piracy.
I would love a solution for Samsung TVs, it's the only reason I pay for Premium.
Just spend $20 on an onn box from Walmart + smarttube.
Same, but nvidia shield. I’ve tried pihole and pf-blocker with no success.
You went through the hassle of setting up a pi hole and in the entire process you didn't figure out that doesn't work on YouTube?
Smarttube
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Revanced manager for the rescue. Fuck Google.
lol and they'll raise prices again next year. and people will complain for a minute, then renew their sub
when is this going to stop being news?
Hello based department?
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.
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Probably the ones that do subscribe are much less price sensitive.
hey... Mister youtube. ... We are not americans, just poor europeans ! 😭
Africans: ?
- Firefox + uBO
- NewPipe/LibrePipe/GrayJay
- FreeTube
They all are free, no subscription required
And sorry Apple users, I don't know what option you have cuz I don't use Apple.
Also Revanced
iOS/iPadOS: Safari + AdGuard (+ Vinegar (optional))
macOS: Safari + AdGuard or Firefox + uBO or FreeTube
I switched from FF to librewolf. Less convenient, more privacy, no pesky G**gle partnerships, afaict.
iOS user here, uYou++ is quite good, but only a mod for the regular YT app, not a complete alternative.
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
Freetube doesn't seem to work anymore (for me at least) as Google went hard on blocking all invidious instances and proxies...
Working fine on librewolf so far.
Change your API backend to LocalAPI in the settings. It still works that way on Freetube and Libretube
Thanks. Seems to work for now, we'll see. Couldn't watch anything yesterday :-/
How do you do that?
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Only up to 50%? I would much appreciate 100%. That would make users rethink their subscription.
Paying for service? Why those savages!