I am seriously thinking of cobbling together a cheap pc just to plug into my TV to watch things like YouTube without the ads.
Comment on Not enough people buying Premium, eh?
fox2263@lemmy.world 1 week ago
They finally shut off my premium account in Argentina for $3 and now I’ve been blasted with ads so much it’s unbearable. Like 3 ads every 3 mins pretty much.
Maybe I can try again in another country but will I’m pretty sure they’re wise to it and demand a card used be of the same country too.
It’s fine on my of but on the tvs where I mostly consume it’s hell on earth!
God damn YouTube. Why do we like it so much.
PixellatedDave@lemmy.world 1 week ago
fox2263@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I know right. I have Apple TV because it’s awesome and doesn’t have Ads everywhere like Google and fire tv.
I’m thinking an android tablet with revanced or similar and casting to the tv…
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
doesn’t have Ads everywhere like Google and fire tv.
yet.
ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’m not sure if it counts as an AD but seems like an AD, many many moons ago (I think when Apple TV+ was introduced), they changed the “home screen” with the apps in your Apple TV to an Apple TV+ one with their content (and some linked from other platforms).
The apps view still exists but now the “home” button gets you to the Apple TV+ one unless you click it again from there (unless you accidentally scrolled a bit and the button) or double click it to open the menu with the recently opened apps.
Snowpix@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Casting on ReVanced will still have ads, because the ads are baked into the cast feature. The ad removal only works for the app itself.
Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’ve got smartube on my fire TV
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Like 3 ads every 3 mins pretty much.
It’s crazy on both ends of the pipeline. Like, if I’m an advertiser, I want my content to be relatively exclusive. I don’t want to be the twelfth ad you see in an hour. If I’m a consumer, I want a continuous uninterrupted stream of media. I don’t want a service that repeatedly cuts out, spams me with some volume-adjusted bullshit, and then cuts back in again seemingly at random.
fox2263@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah I honestly don’t mind a short ad in between videos like the old days. But this shit right now is horrible, forcing people on to premium. YouTube don’t care about the creators they just want subs.
Mangoholic@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
You can usually pay a radom guy in any latin American country who makes a business sharing family accounts for netflix etc. or just get ublock origin.
Gluca23@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Try Invidious
fox2263@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’ve heard there’s too many issues and they have to keep one step ahead of YouTube all the time and it’s getting difficult. Plus, can’t use that on TV
madcaesar@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Any good instances? All I’ve tried are dead
olafurp@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s the world’s medium length video platform. If there’s an indie creator that’s good he’s there. Of course we like the whole world’s content that’s fed to us by an incredibly sophisticated algorithm.
Cnor_Siwas@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You could try SmartTube
Roopappy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s a great product. It is thanklessly maintained by a single developer who is constantly fighting Youtube changes to break it. If you do use it and like it, and you can afford it, please consider a few bucks a month via patreon to keep it alive.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 week ago
A lot of these services are just passion projects by odd individual developers who create something for themselves and then share it with the rest of the world.
Github is great for this kind of spontaneous innovation. But it doesn’t do a good job of organizing communities at large. Why have six different “YouTube cleanup service” alternatives when you could have a single collaborative team working towards the same end-goal? Why are people constantly trying to “fix” YouTube when what we really seem to want is an alternative media host?