YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it

YouTube isn’t happy you’re using ad blockers — and it’s doing something about it::Annoying.

I actually pay for Premium at the moment, but still would need to sit through baked in sponsored messages, and YouTube Shorts or other internal YouTube big banner service advertisements. So i still have uBlock (and sponsor block) anyway to remove that stuff. At which point… Why am i paying for Premium again? They made their site awful to use regardless of if you pay, unless you use adblocking and other extensions.

I left YouTube when they took away my grandfathered family plan, but Spotify has the same crap. Sponsored home screen recommendations, concert recommendations for bands I’ve never listened to, etc…

I am VERY close to giving up Premium. In-content sponsorship is becoming so bad I can’t watch it without SponsorBlock. Since I need third party apps to achieve a reasonable experience anyway, I’m not really sure what I’m paying for. Once the EU forces Apple to allow installing apps outside the App Store, I might cancel.

I used to be grandfathered in to premium for years and I happily payed it because it was at a price point I thought the service was worth. Then they email me saying they will raise the price from $17 to $22. Now I use revanced and get it free on my phone. I would have happily been paying the original price but they decided to be greedy.

Thank you for the heads up on revanced. I’ve been using NewPipe, and while it works very well, I like that revanced provides a more genuine YT experience.

You’re welcome. I hope it serves you well. If you run into an issue where it plays only 30 seconds of video that means it needs to be updated.

Incoming, Youtube Premium+ with SponsorBlock.

Youtubers will mark their sponsored segments and get a higher payout for that.

Spoiler: ads money is so low people need to do sponsor blocks and patreons.

There were lots of quality YouTube creators before monetization.

Can’t we go back to that?

Then we’re back to cable, with constant ads in a paid service.

I think the creators are free to bake in sponsored segments, but I totally agree with the rest of it. YT is treating us like lab rats and pushing tons of unwanted unnecessary stuff on us. I don’t really want to reward that behavior with a monthly subscription.

This is a problem with so many monthly subscriptions: Instead of treating the continuously paying customers well to keep them in, they treat them as fat wallets that they can potentially milk more out of.

Part of the reason YouTubers have 3rd party sponsor spots is because viewer an blocking makes their Adsense revenue unreliable.

YouTube premium helps address that for creators.

It wouldn’t surprise me if some sponsors already demand viewership data to know how many people are skipping baked-in sponsor spots and uses that to pay creators less.

Finding more ways to avoid compensating creators isn’t going to make the situation better.

Part of the reason YouTubers have 3rd party sponsor spots is because viewer an blocking makes their Adsense revenue unreliable.

I think the primary reason for that is so they still have revenue when YouTube randomly demonetized their videos. Whether for a false detection of something that’s not “advertiser-friendly”, false copyright claims because someone remixed music you’ve licensed and uploaded it to a library to be scanned using Content ID, or if YouTube just decided to say “fuck you” and say your videos are getting Invalid Traffic for no reason. It’s a diversification of revenue streams.

Both can be true. And YouTube premium also addressed that issue.

They also got rid of my premium lite subscription… I was paying them and now I have to get back to adblock.

They try it out every once in a while in every country to probably gauge how far they can go until users either swap to Lite or quit alltogether by watching with ads or nothing at all.

Banger is, that with Lite you still get limted^tm ads. The fuck?

Still paying the YouTube red price before they changed it, $10 isn’t bad for music and no ads, now a days

While YT is playing its games, I’ve found a half-dozen other ways to get at the videos. Very educational. I’m thinking they are learning a whole bunch about what people think of their way-too-aggressive approach … and how people usually respond to that behavior.

They think the rest of the world will accept the horror that was USA cable TV. Ads interrupt your movie every few minutes 🤮

I haven’t seen a valuation on Youtube … but recently saw that Twitter sold for $44B and X is now at $12B.

I’ve enjoyed viewing YT videos for many years … learned A LOT … and thought quite highly of them. I can see charging to see long films (bandwidth and licenses isn’t cheap) … but piling ads on top of thousands of private people trying to help others out (for little profit)? Ads on educational programming? Yeah… it’s WORSE than what Cable did to films.

Reminds me of that old song lyric …

Meet the new boss, Same as the old boss

Any of those way for iOS?

How does it work as I just copied five links from piped and five from YouTube directly into Yattee and got Failed Loading video - Operation stopped every time.

I’m not on IOS, but I’ve heard Brave browser on IOS has adblock so that might be a way to avoid ads. Sites like various Invidious instances run in any browser would also be a way to dodge ads.

Any browser that accepts plugins would also work, but I’m not sure if they exsist or not.

AltStore with uYouPlus

Sure, throw it away and get something with access to 3rd party apps. Alternatively, wait a couple of years for the EU regulations regarding 3rd party apps to take effect on apple products.

I can’t really afford to throw away a £1000 device that still have some time left on its contract.

I guess my next phone can be a pixel with graphene OS.

The AdBlock arms race is still going on - would have been more precise

When they finally roll out full fledged DRM we will have to torrent channels.

If there won’t be any app to do it for me while looking like browsing YouTube I will rather simple stop using it. Their bandwidth at that point needs to be decrease as much as possible. But people are stupid and it won’t happened…

Your choice, i will keep watching couple of creators, even with P2P, and down their traffic goes.

In times of Sonarr and Radarr i just open a different app to watch them.

Ok, every day at least 3 post like this… It’s boring already and fck youtube.

Same with “Oh no, Microsoft made Windows worse.” Or “Oh no, Elon continues to be stupid.”

Maybe one day I’ll see something that says the opposite happened, which will truly be news to me

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