Youtube Premium is probably the best subscription you can have if you watch a lot of Youtube. I’m not thrilled about having it though, it feels like Extortion As A Service
Haunterblademoi on
Then we could use some kind of ad blocker in our browser to prevent that.
ElCamo267 on
Nowadays, I just watch significantly less YouTube. Even the ‘premium lite’ plan isn’t worth it to me.
I have enough content available to me that I don’t need another subscription program.
Edit: I also started using YouTube Vanced
_9a_ on
On the one hand, servers cost money to run. I get it. Businesses need to cover their operating expenses.
On the other hand, I don’t need to watch anything. At all. Ever.
On the third hand, their algorithm has no idea what to do with me in terms of ads, so the only thing they’ve managed to make me do is get a low-key annoyance and bad feeling about their product that I didn’t want to consume in the first place.
prime3vl on
*Laughs in UBlock Origin*
bigfuzzydog on
Man the internet really just keeps getting shittier doesnt it?
ASuarezMascareno on
Youtube about to reduce the time I spend watching youtube. I guess it will be good for my health.
DENelson83 on
r/enshittification/
ElektroBento on
I just don’t use it anymore and IF I use ytdl and download a good one for offline use and be done with it. Man YT these days is like cancer
cookies_are_awesome on
I use Smarttube so I get no ads already and built-in sponsorblock to boot. If you have an Android/Google TV, there’s no better way to watch YouTube.
drewsapro on
It’s for YouTube tv btw guys
Edit: sorry, YouTube app on tv, not YouTube tv
Adlehyde on
“YouTube is hellbent on making sure no one ever uses the TV app ever again.”
dallasdude on
They play ads between the set up and the punch line of jokes. FFS. It’s awful.
At least TV used to have a natural flow. Now YouTube decides it’s a good idea to play a 9-minute long ad mid-joke that you can skip after 4 seconds. But if you don’t the ad will play for NINE MINUTES.
htownAstrofan on
SmartTube my friends
South_Corner_8762 on
Hate to state the obvious, but the ads are only un skippable if you watch YouTube. As marketers continue to destroy the Internet, go grab a book.
vriska1 on
Firefox and UBlock origin my dudes.
Vaxtez on
Youtube: “Why are so many people bypassing our ads?!”
also Youtube: Unskippable 30S adverts on TV
Seriously, if YT went back to how it was a few years ago, where it was 1 10-15S skippable ad, i’d be fine using it without adblockers, but with the way it is now, YT can go f- off. Ads are just parasites now & I hate it.
po3smith on
Ad blockers
If they eliminate those from working I’ll simply use a URL downloader or anything else at the kind and simply download the video I’d like to watch. Watch it and then delete. No comments no likes no interaction and most of all nobody gets money.
If that fails I’m prepared to set up a hard drive for the laptop and throughout my day rather than watching the videos I simply add them to a playlist. Throughout the following day that playlist while I’m busy making another one of stuff I’d watch will be playing and being recorded via screen capture. At the end of the day/the next day I’ll watch that content and fast-forward through the ads like 1 would do with the DVR.
If that fails then I stop watching content altogether.
The ads aren’t the problem the amount of them are and the sooner you realize us the better off will all be if not you build a bigger wall we build a taller ladder. The cycle continues. Frak youtube!
albaiesh on
YouTube is already absolutely unusable without an adblocker.
Absolute garbage experience.
evilkasper on
I watched a video without ad blocking the other day and it was horrible. Every 5 minutes there were 2 ads. It was horrible.
Ferrocile on
I get less and less value from YouTube. I’ve cut the amount I’m on there significantly due to annoying ads. This would be the thing that pushes me over the edge. I don’t need it and won’t miss it. The fact that we are the products anymore already feels bad enough.
Kyouhen on
Friendly reminder that Google can’t serve ads in Myanmar. VPNs are your friend.
Arts251 on
I loved youtube for all the DIY content, but find myself using it less and less specifically because the ads are getting more and more overwhelming – google is just going to drive away their audience. These days I use tiktok and chatgpt/perplexity to find any DIY information I need to find.
JustaFoodHole on
I moved my parents off Chrome just so they don’t see the ads.
Steve_Lightning on
I used to watch YouTube videos to fall asleep and was just too sick of the ads. I went old school and just started reading books again to fall asleep, it’s been great.
swoloswaggins on
Some ads are a whole fucking show
meatymimic on
I haven’t watched an ad on YouTube in an age.
I used to pay for premium, too. And then they raised the price to 16 bucks.
After that, I swapped to Firefox and blocked all of the ads. If they make those “unblockable” I will filter my network traffic.
I’ll resort to anything to not watch ads.
stprnn on
Imagine watching ads in 2026
SusLiker on
Youtube cares about us so much that they are forcing us off it.
Worth-Weight-9184 on
Brave adblock still hasn’t missed a beat, let’s see
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Youtube Premium is probably the best subscription you can have if you watch a lot of Youtube. I’m not thrilled about having it though, it feels like Extortion As A Service
Then we could use some kind of ad blocker in our browser to prevent that.
Nowadays, I just watch significantly less YouTube. Even the ‘premium lite’ plan isn’t worth it to me.
I have enough content available to me that I don’t need another subscription program.
Edit: I also started using YouTube Vanced
On the one hand, servers cost money to run. I get it. Businesses need to cover their operating expenses.
On the other hand, I don’t need to watch anything. At all. Ever.
On the third hand, their algorithm has no idea what to do with me in terms of ads, so the only thing they’ve managed to make me do is get a low-key annoyance and bad feeling about their product that I didn’t want to consume in the first place.
*Laughs in UBlock Origin*
Man the internet really just keeps getting shittier doesnt it?
Youtube about to reduce the time I spend watching youtube. I guess it will be good for my health.
r/enshittification/
I just don’t use it anymore and IF I use ytdl and download a good one for offline use and be done with it. Man YT these days is like cancer
I use Smarttube so I get no ads already and built-in sponsorblock to boot. If you have an Android/Google TV, there’s no better way to watch YouTube.
It’s for YouTube tv btw guys
Edit: sorry, YouTube app on tv, not YouTube tv
“YouTube is hellbent on making sure no one ever uses the TV app ever again.”
They play ads between the set up and the punch line of jokes. FFS. It’s awful.
At least TV used to have a natural flow. Now YouTube decides it’s a good idea to play a 9-minute long ad mid-joke that you can skip after 4 seconds. But if you don’t the ad will play for NINE MINUTES.
SmartTube my friends
Hate to state the obvious, but the ads are only un skippable if you watch YouTube. As marketers continue to destroy the Internet, go grab a book.
Firefox and UBlock origin my dudes.
Youtube: “Why are so many people bypassing our ads?!”
also Youtube: Unskippable 30S adverts on TV
Seriously, if YT went back to how it was a few years ago, where it was 1 10-15S skippable ad, i’d be fine using it without adblockers, but with the way it is now, YT can go f- off. Ads are just parasites now & I hate it.
Ad blockers
If they eliminate those from working I’ll simply use a URL downloader or anything else at the kind and simply download the video I’d like to watch. Watch it and then delete. No comments no likes no interaction and most of all nobody gets money.
If that fails I’m prepared to set up a hard drive for the laptop and throughout my day rather than watching the videos I simply add them to a playlist. Throughout the following day that playlist while I’m busy making another one of stuff I’d watch will be playing and being recorded via screen capture. At the end of the day/the next day I’ll watch that content and fast-forward through the ads like 1 would do with the DVR.
If that fails then I stop watching content altogether.
The ads aren’t the problem the amount of them are and the sooner you realize us the better off will all be if not you build a bigger wall we build a taller ladder. The cycle continues. Frak youtube!
YouTube is already absolutely unusable without an adblocker.
Absolute garbage experience.
I watched a video without ad blocking the other day and it was horrible. Every 5 minutes there were 2 ads. It was horrible.
I get less and less value from YouTube. I’ve cut the amount I’m on there significantly due to annoying ads. This would be the thing that pushes me over the edge. I don’t need it and won’t miss it. The fact that we are the products anymore already feels bad enough.
Friendly reminder that Google can’t serve ads in Myanmar. VPNs are your friend.
I loved youtube for all the DIY content, but find myself using it less and less specifically because the ads are getting more and more overwhelming – google is just going to drive away their audience. These days I use tiktok and chatgpt/perplexity to find any DIY information I need to find.
I moved my parents off Chrome just so they don’t see the ads.
I used to watch YouTube videos to fall asleep and was just too sick of the ads. I went old school and just started reading books again to fall asleep, it’s been great.
Some ads are a whole fucking show
I haven’t watched an ad on YouTube in an age.
I used to pay for premium, too. And then they raised the price to 16 bucks.
After that, I swapped to Firefox and blocked all of the ads. If they make those “unblockable” I will filter my network traffic.
I’ll resort to anything to not watch ads.
Imagine watching ads in 2026
Youtube cares about us so much that they are forcing us off it.
Brave adblock still hasn’t missed a beat, let’s see