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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This is why I stopped paying them. Fuck them, you're just an source of income to them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Side loading works great for this and it's free

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

I use Firefox with ublock on my phone and I get no ads. Or I watch them in Newpipe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Which adblocker are you using on iOS?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

DNS or an app? How does it work?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

It is just YT testing new exciting features, nothing to worry about.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

I much prefer Newpipe, which has been amazing so far.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Were you able to import your subscriptions? I haven't been able to and that's all that's keeping me on Premium

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

Yeah, logging in pulled across everything, as far as I can tell. Subscriptions included!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd never heard of FUTO. It's been around for a year and I can find so little information.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I've been using thus too. Works great.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

This is normal, nothing to see here... except these wonderful ads!! - YouTube

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A/b testing or code error?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

With Alphabet, I treat anything related to delivering more ads as intentional.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

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...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I just can't take an article complaining about ads seriously when it's that peppered with ads …

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

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?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lol, entirely unnecessary to watch YouTube.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 21 hours ago

Firefox and ublock

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