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What ads? (User without premium, but proper browser and adblocker)
Firebox mobile + unlock origin extension + YouTube.com.
You get everything that YouTube premium can offer. Including screen off play.
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This looks like either a bug in the platform or people with Premium Lite. The article made no attempt at investigating this because all they did was to reprint complaints from anonymous people on Reddit. Customer support offering boilerplate reply about why someone is seeing ads sounds like par for the course here because it’s all either LLM chatbots or people in third world countries who couldn’t care less.
Or sometimes it doesn't let me play YouTube in a minimized floating way. Seems to be if I've been going back and forth between horizontal and vertical vids. Both normally allow floating minimized play but something about how they interact often leads me to having to force close the app, which loses me the custom queue I've been constructing. If the official solution is buggy...
u/Dangerous-Pizza7054 from the article,
Seems like the user tracking "special promotion" overrides the premium. They don't even say whether it's expected or not. But my take away is that paying for premium may or may not show you ads, but you are definitely tracked and harvested for data. (Maybe even more so, since, well, you are more valuable to them.)
At least a subscription includes YouTube music? Isn't that interesting and relevant.
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I got the same Sunday banner in the middle of the screen similar to where shorts show up. Never in my life have I watched or cared for American football. Clearly a waste of money for the advertising company since I just closed it by pressing the x same as shorts on desktop.
So premium users put their data on a pedestal for Google? That's fun
That's generally; if you have an account, you are easier to track for them.
ublock is cheaper and actually works
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Grayjay on Android has been working damn near flawlessly for me. No clue if the parent company is to be trusted at this point or not- but I cannot argue with the results.
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I'd never heard of FUTO. It's been around for a year and I can find so little information.
I know Louis Rossman is involved. I don't agree with some of his views, but as far as tech freedom goes he seems to have the right idea.
I much prefer Newpipe, which has been amazing so far.
I've been using thus too. Works great.
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I just can't take an article complaining about ads seriously when it's that peppered with ads …
They are "complaining" (more like reporting) about ads for people who paid to not have any.
Do you have a subscription with this media company?
If this goes live, I'm out. YT premium is my most expensive subscription, but I watch enough YouTube that I'm OK with it, especially considering that it supports creators more than ad viewers. If I still get ads? Nah dawg. I'll divy up that money amongst patreons or whatever, and install add blockers.
If your main reason for paying premium is for ad blocking, I’d suggest just cancelling it now and using ad blockers. If you want to support creators, I’d say that it’s better to cancel and subscribe to a few patreons - I’d pick some of the smaller creators you like, to spread some of that support around a bit.
If you use iOS devices for watching YouTube, look into side-loading uYou+, it’s basically an edited YouTube app that removes most of the ads. You can stream from your phone to the apple TV, too, also without ads.
Not sure what the android equivalent is, but someone else will know - hopefully they will share in the comments also.
Why don’t you just cancel it now and use ad blockers?
Joel explains this in the second sentence: "I’m OK with it, especially considering that it supports creators more than ad viewers"
Ah, sorry, that’ll teach me to read more carefully. Thanks for pointing it out <3
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ReVanced is great on Android, it also enables other YouTube premium features such as picture-in-picure mode.
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It is just YT testing new exciting features, nothing to worry about.
Yeah I stopped paying for premium once I’d figured out using Safari on my phone with an ad blocker works with YouTube still lol
Which adblocker are you using on iOS?
If you use iOS devices for watching YouTube, look into side-loading uYou+, it’s basically an edited YouTube app that removes most of the ads. You can stream from your phone to the apple TV, too, also without ads. You don’t need a jailbroken phone or anything like that.
Adguard
DNS or an app? How does it work?
It works in safari and you can block anything like ublock. Not dns. You could run dns on a server and run your iphone's network through it as well.
I use Firefox with ublock on my phone and I get no ads. Or I watch them in Newpipe.
A/b testing or code error?
With Alphabet, I treat anything related to delivering more ads as intentional.
This is normal, nothing to see here... except these wonderful ads!! - YouTube
This is why I stopped paying them. Fuck them, you're just an source of income to them.
I mean, yeah, what kind of relationship did you expect?
They're not running youtube for the good of their heart
Lol godamnit I just found out YouTube is a business, you're getting downvoted!
Side loading works great for this and it's free
whos gonna prosecute any of this shit now
Oh they will prosecute! They will prosecute people with adblocks and alternative clients.
I guess they are premium ads?
this but unironically
advertisers paid a premium
Ad companies have the new subscription tier of Premium Buster, so now you have to upgrade to Premium Buster Buster
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Good one! 🤣