A/b testing or code error?
With Alphabet, I treat anything related to delivering more ads as intentional.
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…
u/Dangerous-Pizza7054 from the article,
Seems like the user tracking “special promotion” overrides the premium. They don’t even say whether it’s expected or not. But my take away is that paying for premium may or may not show you ads, but you are definitely tracked and harvested for data. (Maybe even more so, since, well, you are more valuable to them.)
I got the same Sunday banner in the middle of the screen similar to where shorts show up. Never in my life have I watched or cared for American football. Clearly a waste of money for the advertising company since I just closed it by pressing the x same as shorts on desktop.
Well yes, you didn’t get first ads. But what about second ads?
That has been my specific issue with paying for any Google product always. I understand when I am using a product for free that I am not necessarily the customer and that money has to be made off of me or the users more generally somehow. That’s “fine” (ish, not really, but that has more to do with issues of security than anything).
However when I pay for a product or service, I want to now be the customer and I want to be in control of my data and have the company cater to me. If, when paying for a Google service, there was some legally relevant things in place that insured I was no longer being tracked and used to generate revenue via third parties I would gladly pay. Probably more than they are charging now, but instead they want to have it both ways which is just not OK with me.
Wait, I haven’t seen ads on YouTube Premium (yet), and I’m just now realizing this could very likely be because Google knows my wife and I don’t watch sports.
We’ve GOT A PAYERR OVER HEREEEEE!!!
At least a subscription includes YouTube music? Isn’t that interesting and relevant.
I would cancel that subscription SOOO FAST.
I’d argue that YTMusic is a superior product to YT, but both put together aren’t worth anywhere near the cost. You can get a premium TV/Movie service for that price with family access.
That part of the support email almost made me puke of how fucking awful it was. “Why complain about ads when you get YouTube Music for free by paying us money”
ublock is cheaper and actually works
So premium users put their data on a pedestal for Google? That’s fun
That’s generally; if you have an account, you are easier to track for them.
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
Which adblocker are you using on iOS?
Adguard
DNS or an app? How does it work?
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.
This Is what I’ve been using.
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.
I use Firefox with ublock on my phone and I get no ads. Or I watch them in Newpipe.
Don’t worry, simply pay for Youtube Premium+ to get rid of ads on Premium!
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.
I’ve been using thus too. Works great.
Needs an ATV app.
I’d never heard of FUTO. It’s been around for a year and I can find so little information.
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.
Were you able to import your subscriptions? I haven’t been able to and that’s all that’s keeping me on Premium
Yeah, logging in pulled across everything, as far as I can tell. Subscriptions included!
I much prefer Newpipe, which has been amazing so far.
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One of my biggest issues with the ads is that they’re mostly scams. I just get ads for shit I know isn’t real
Just surf the seas.
Lol, entirely unnecessary to watch YouTube.
explain your self
Firefox and ublock
This is normal, nothing to see here… except these wonderful ads!! - YouTube
The second i see an ad in cancelling my subscription
You do see ads, you just don’t realize it. There are multiple 1-2 minute videos on your feed usually with the title “Introducing [insert product]” and these are product placements that YouTube is very well aware of. They also had the audacity to tell me that these are ads but they don’t “interfere” with me watching videos. So, they are injecting ads into premium subscriber feeds already. Disgusting company.
That’s true.
I can skip those at least. And do with sponsorblock
Same.
I use New Pipe for android and Freetube for desktop. I have all the YouTube premium features at $0 cost and no ads hehe
I haven’t been able to use new pipe since a few months back, did they fix it?
My NewPipe hasn’t broken for a significant time in quite a while, it’s good to go in my experience
I use revanced, it’s good
Grayjay be like
I guess they are premium ads?
this but unironically
advertisers paid a premium
Ad companies have the new subscription tier of Premium Buster, so now you have to upgrade to Premium Buster Buster
You can’t triple stamp a double stamp, you can’t triple stamp a double stamp!
I love seeing a Big Hit reference. Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one who’s ever seen that movie.
Good one! 🤣
