• Piranha Phish@lemmy.world
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    I feel like everybody is overlooking the fact that this person is getting an ad, to watch ads, after already paying for Premium.

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      I suspect that he is using YouTube ReVanced, which allows you to patch the YT app. One of the patches is replacing the branding with “Premium”. But you occasionally still get YT Premium ads - 0 normal ads, tho.

      This might be the case

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        Revanced usually hides the big central ‘+’ upload button by default. Unless OP explicitly re-enabled it, they are using the standard app.

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        Thanks for letting me know this existed, I will be downloading it immediately. Edit: ReVanced isn’t available on IOS, I use Android but the guy who posted this is clearly using IOS.

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          If you don’t want to bother with the whole patching process you can also try Grayjay, it’s in early beta but it works flawlessly on my phone. Haven’t tried casting yet but it’s supposed to work, as opposed to Revanced.

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      But it’s not an ad. It’s a prompt telling you that getting premium has more options than free YouTube.

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        9 months ago

        That’s still an advertisement. It’s an advertisement for something you’re already using to encourage you to use more features of it so they can get analytic data from your usage patterns.

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      I don’t know what the hell I did to my revanced because now it only plays the first like minute of a video, then it just buffers nonstop.

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        Just patch a new version. Use the Revanced manager, download the latest recommended apk from apkmirror and use the default patches.

        This happened to me months ago and back then it was a common issue and there was a fix. I found the fix on the subreddit but can’t quite remember what it was. A freshly patched version should do the trick though.

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    "Hold on honey, I’ll learn how to fix this pipe that’s burst, once I watch these 3 ads, complete this survey, redeem these rewards, finish this captcha and confirm my email.

    Oh, this video isn’t available in Canada.

    Even though it was made in Montana, literally a few miles from here."

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    Sucks to be an iOS user. On Android you can install ReVenced and block all Ads and in video sponsors.

    Additionally, you can install 3th party clients for YouTube Music (without ads and background play).

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        What is the difference in this new sideload thingy EU only compared with what we have today with tools like Altstore?

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          Probably they will add a way to sideload APKs iPAs on device, without 3th party tools.

          They might increase the 3 apps limit too.

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            They might increase the 3 apps limit too.

            Oh yeah, that is an annoyance that needs to be fixed, totally forgot about it.

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      You han use yattee, pay for a developper account (20$/year) to sideload apps like uYou+ (modded yt with revanced feautures) or jailbreak your device to sideload apps freely.

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        Are you sure you want to use shady 3th party service like that? You wouldn’t want to break out of Apple’s eco system, wouldn’t you? 😂

        Jailbreak? Jailbreak is dead since iOS 15 but ok 🤙 Nowadays, buying an iPhone to jailbreak afterward, doesn’t make much sense at this point. You pay so much to get stability and constancy, and jailbreaking takes both away.

        As ex jailbreaker, I switched to Android for this reason.

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          Same here, was on an iPhone 8, jailbroken on ios 16.4.1 with no stability issues. Jailbreaking is dying, I switched to Android too.

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            iPhone 8 stills fine for jailbreaking, but newer devices have more security layers that need to be bypassed, therefore you will have stability problems.

            Also now, jailbreaks are rootless, which I don’t know what really means (probably less tweaks functionality).

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    Y’all speaking about NewPipe and ReVanced, but SmartTube Next, which was originally intended for Android on smart TV’s, works perfectly on phones too.

    And aside of blocking ads and allowing you to log in, it has Sponsorblock integrated.

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    This is the true reason why I don’t have YouTube premium. This is quite an awful experience for a supposedly premium subscription. Why pay for premium if the experience is better using free methods?

    Please corporations, treat paying subscribers well.

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      Huh? I’ve been a premium user for years. Haven’t seen an ad in a video in forever. Not sure what op is showing but looks like a little one time notification of a new feature. If I saw I’d have closed and never seen again.

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        I’ve seen people getting a “products you may like” in the suggestions, with premium. There is no way to remove that (other than uBlock origin)

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          I’ve had premium for years (I like yt music and tend to mostly watch on PS5 or using casting). Never seen anything like this. Do you have a screenshot or anything?

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            I’ve never had premium, mostly out of spite after the forcing ads on unmonetized creators and removing the dislike count, once I was able to afford it. But I’ve seen some other post on Lemmy with the “products you may like” appearing on a premium account.

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          Oh sure I see those ads that are directly benefitting a content creator. I can skip or listen to those

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    if youre using android, please install youtube revanced/revanced extended. it makes the youtube experience a lot less shit. if youre using an iphone and live in europe, wait until iOS is officially forced to allow sideloading and install a third party client!

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      Do these 3rd party apps let you get rid of Shorts? I absolutely despise accidentally clicking on Shorts and would prefer if they actually stayed in the Shorts section so this doesn’t happen on my Home feed.

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      They’re clearly using iOS. Plus, you can already sideload up to two apps with SideStore. I recommend uYouPlusExtra.

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      I just went the ol’ VPN route and got a YouTube Premium family subscription in Turkey. It’s about 2€/month for 5 people; peanuts essentially. I wish I could avoid giving money to Google entirely but I’m mostly using Apple devices to consume YouTube content and my four friends who share the subscription with me do as well. So yeah, that’s the trade-off I can live with.

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    With the Premium Afterhours service you get ad-free but also handjobs from a YouTube intern in the broom closet. $15.99 per month no contract, cancel anytime.

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    I would totally pay for YouTube premium if they weren’t so good about making me watch my favorite gun-tubers on other platforms. Every channel has this endless and constantly changing list of words they can’t say for fear of being demonetized.

    Fuck them indeed.

    Break up the monopoly and I won’t need to block your ads because I’ll be able to go elsewhere.

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      Same. Was watching a video on nebula where they said a naughty word and I caught myself gasping but then remembered they are free to do so here.

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    it started as a platform to share your private video’s, these day’s it is no longer about sharing, but about monitizing your video’s. the strange thing is, people still watch, I’m sure that there are or can be better alterntatives, hence instead of complaining, set up our/your own video sharing platform…

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    Rewards? Oh yeah, less money in my pocket and price increases every few months? Sounds way more convenient than ublock and revanced. Rather pay with my money for an ad-free experience and line the pockets of a rich corporation. My time is too valuable to compile revanced once every few weeks!