Thanks, but I prefer Revanced.
blocks most ads
Super important and makes this completely useless.
Somebody didn’t read the article! It’s only Music videos that will have ads. It seems the cost savings here are all from cutting out record label contracts
I did read the article. Music videos on YouTube are YouTube videos. Adding ads to them doesn’t magically make them something else.
What they’re really saying is “oh, well, we want you to get used to the subscription model having ads on some things, because we plan to expand it massively in the future.”
We’re arguing about whether music videos are videos and therefore there will be ads on videos… Here’s what the article says. Pretty straightforward.
With YouTube Lite, customers will be able to watch videos across verticals like gaming, fashion, beauty, cooking, news, and more, ad-free, but will be shown ads on music content and music videos.
My YT usage includes exactly zero anything related to music, so this seems relevant for me.
I don’t want ads in any of my videos, but if I have to have intrusive and distracting profit generating clips interrupt what I actually want to watch … I think music videos are among the ones I’d prefer disrupted the least.
Then you are using it for music and pay the full rate.
As an entry-level subscription, the new tier won’t offer several benefits in the full YouTube Premium ($13.99 per month) subscription, like downloads, background play, or the ability to watch music videos ad-free.
I wonder how much electricity is wasted on this alone. Probably so many people leaving their screens powered on just to continue listening to something without it stopping.
It literally costs them money to make YouTube worse so that you can pay them to make it better again. NewPipe go brrrrrr
uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock are still free.
Freetube (desktop) and newpipe (android) is great for those who would like a subscription feed without an account, local Playlist, download videos, and save view history while remaining account free.
I use pipepipe on mobile with it being a fork of newpipe with sponsor block, and lets you use a throw away YouTube account it uses only to access age restricted videos.
Unfortunately Chrome just rendered uBlock Origin useless, and borderline demands you remove it from your browser. I can confirm that mine stopped working yesterday :(
And now you switch to Firefox. The better browser for years at this point.
uBlock works fine in Firefox and its forks.
Don’t worry, there are plenty of alternatives to Chrome with built-in ad-blocking.
Eight dollars a month for fucking “premium-lite” is insane.
“ad-free” sure, I heard that before.
I’ll continue watching ad-free as I please with my extensions, thank you. Until YouTube has the balls to shut down UBlock Origin and all ad-blockers, you can take your premium tier and shove it.
Oh a corporate advertising shill downvoted me. Aren’t you cute? Don’t you love being marketed to? Idiot.
Good for them. Still won’t give them money ever
I heard people still get ads even on full price
Had it for years no ads ever anywhere on YouTube.
Or get uBlock for $0 😁
