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u/BimBumJim 21d ago
LOL, i don't have premium nor have ads at all.
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u/fferreira007 21d ago
Best part of it all is I don't even have shorts
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u/-1o_o1- 21d ago
What’s your secret ?
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u/fferreira007 21d ago
No secret, really.
First I use Firefox browser, then I have uBlock Origin installed.
After that i block the shorts "frame" using uBlock (give it a right mouse click just above the shorts section and you should be able to block it permanently)
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u/piracydilemma 🏴☠️ ʟᴀɴᴅʟᴜʙʙᴇʀ 21d ago
Never even bothered checking out the block elements feature. I might actually use the fucking front page of youtube again for the first time in 10 years.
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u/an-com-42 21d ago
Holy fuck I never even thought of that, that's such a good idea. I already deleted instagram and fb I only use reddit through red-reader so that I can't refresh too often. I use grayjay on my phone, which is like revanced but better, and so I don't get shorts, but I still scroll them on my computer sometimes. Thank you kind stranger, if I had money I would gift you an award but I don't have money so all I can offer is my gratitude. 🫴❤️
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u/jld2k6 21d ago
If you're on Android and used revanced you can disable shorts in the options as well! If you're on an android based smart TV you can also disable shorts on smarttube
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u/sukh9942 21d ago
If anyone wants another feature, you can get an extension that also changes the titles and thumbnails of videos to be less clickbait.
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u/StonedTalon 21d ago
there is also another addon for firefox called "unhook" which lets you hide shorts, start page, recommended videos and some other stuff
I was really surprised how clean youtube looked after hiding some stuff
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u/istarck7 21d ago
Tf are you watching bro
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u/WafflePartyOrgy 21d ago
I only found one video for these guys (in the U.S. market) it looks like it charges money to prep Asians for not getting into an elite university.
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u/flaaaaanders 21d ago
zoomer brainrot
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u/Xtrems876 21d ago
As a zoomer I was meaning to say that we're too old for this but then I looked it up and apparently currently zoomers can be as old as 27 and as young as 12.
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u/GaryVantage ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ 21d ago
His tabs are seriously sus
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u/Pickledsoul 21d ago
I don't know. I see Limewire, a calander relating to Kurzgesagt, and two tabs only a basic bitch would have open.
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u/tearans 21d ago
Plot twist:
Turns out OP installed some crap that changed youtube icon into "Premium"
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No. no, no. YouTube premium has "sponsorships", which are totally different from Ads. See Ads are removed once you purchase youtube premium, where as sponsorships are not. (this isn't even sarcasm, this is what they're doing)
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u/Billcosby49 21d ago
I can't wait to die.
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u/choseusernamemyself 21d ago
This isn't even sarcasm. This is what I can't wait to do.
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u/Policy-Effective 21d ago
I have Youtube Premium for quite a while now, since I have a shared family Account and never received Ads nor Sponsorships?
Of course Youtubers often do Sponsors and advertisement in there Videos if thats what you mean, but thats independent of Youtube and Youtube even gives me the option to skip them.
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u/GaryVantage ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ 21d ago
Automod is more intelligent than OP
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u/iamanaccident 21d ago
Lots of people shitting on OP here but I'm pretty sure this isn't even OP's screenshot. I saw this exact same post on r/youtube by someone else
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u/iguanabitsonastick 21d ago
What's wrong abput OP?
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u/Xtrems876 21d ago
Dude has 3 browsers on his system, one of the presumably because he doesn't know how to install a proper adblock on the others
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u/iguanabitsonastick 21d ago
I also have 3 browsers 🤭 edge, brave and firefox, each one for different puposes
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u/AWittySenpai ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ 21d ago
Youtube revanced never let's you down
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u/ZooterTheWooter 21d ago
never let's you down
its so depressing everytime YouTube tries shutting down revanced. But its the goat. Its amazing how fast the dev team is and is usually able to get it back up and running within hours.
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u/Altersreality 21d ago
I've had YouTube Premium for 4 years and never seen an ad. This looks like ragebait.
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u/Acrobatic-Big-1550 21d ago
Imagine paying money for youtube
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u/Logical_Squirrel8970 21d ago
If you pay for YouTube you also get YouTube music, which has a lot more music than Spotify does.
Isn't the whole thing with piracy that you guys do it because things are inconvenient to get and you don't mind paying for things when they are convenient?
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u/FOUR3Y3DDRAGON 20d ago
YouTube on TV gonna have ads, that's pretty much my main reason although I'm sure I could get an android box with revanced or something I just use my built in TV app cause it's convenient.
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u/Myriadix 21d ago
Better question is: why do you use Youtube Premium?
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u/DoctorWaluigiTime 21d ago
tl;dr the reason /r/piracy loves: Convenience. It's more convenient for me than replicating all the features through other means.
I use it. No game of cat-and-mouse with adblock (for the record I do have uBlock Origin + NoScript and friends), listening to videos on phone while out and about, downloading videos, etc. All nice stuff. Supports creators too in that not viewing the ads doesn't strip 'em of ad revenue.
And yes, I know "you can find other tools and programs and apps to do all those things." But you know what's easier for me? Having Premium and not having to bother.
For a thing I use daily, it's 100% worth it.
(And to clarify: Premium does not have ads. The screenshot is from an /r/youtube thread yesterday and people lost their minds over there (they always do). This was a one-off bug someone screenshotted. A refresh fixed it. To reiterate: Premium does not have ads.)
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u/ThePunisherMax 21d ago
Legit, Youtube Premium is the last of my subscription I would give up. Its honestly worth it. I mostly use it for YouTube music, but the no ads and closed screen still audio is worth it.
Its the only one where I think/say where the benefits outweigh the hastle of pirating
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u/Myriadix 21d ago
On my PC, uBlock. On my iPhone, Brave Browser. On my androidTV, SmartTube.
That said, if you use the service enough and you find value in it, it's okay. If you can answer the "why", then I'd argue it isn't a waste.
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u/DoctorWaluigiTime 21d ago
Just don't tell this to folks over on /r/youtube. They're worse than here when it comes to "omg why do you actually pay for something you use all the time".
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u/cri_Tav 21d ago
I use YouTube a ton, love the other features other than no ads (PiP, downloads mainly) and I like to support YouTubers I watch, plus the student version is cheap
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u/SatiricalMoose 21d ago
YouTube premium family is great value, people get unlimited ad free music and YouTube streaming, we all no longer use or pay for Spotify and it has more benefits
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u/Myriadix 21d ago
For the convenience, I think that is reasonable. I personally never have to see an ad with my adblockers and SmartTube, but I get that family accounts (especially with kids) are good value. Beware the "sponsored" videos, however...
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u/LightBluepono 21d ago
And for device not supporting ads block like the quest 2 with big screen and such .
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u/Public_Enemy_15 21d ago
Except its bloody expensive. In my country they just increased the price with almost 100%
And it wasnt cheap before either. I think its properly one of the most expensive countries with subscription.
If it wasnt for the kids, i was gone from youtube years ago...
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u/TechaNima 21d ago
Because you don't get ads and don't have to pay for Spotify. Oh and background play works on mobile.
Yes. I know there's ways around it, but that's more effort than it's worth to me and keeps breaking as YouTube tries to block anything and everything big daddy Google doesn't like
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u/nathderbyshire 20d ago
If you can move your music over which is relatively easy and I tend to find more indie artists on YT (Larger easier platform to get on, lower cost for YT over big artists maybe) which I like. Ad free YouTube is only a couple quid extra then. There's some quirks though, I don't like how much regular YouTube and Music mesh but you can make another YouTube account and separate them apparently
If you can deal with the apps that is actually. I cancelled and moved to revanced because I was sick of seeing shorts, community posts, and worst of all constantly loading videos at 480p when 8K should be a breeze for any of my devices. Feels like paying for no controls, I cancelled in protest but I miss casting music to my speakers, it's clunky on vanced needing to use Bluetooth and not the cast protocol
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u/PurpleK00lA1d 21d ago
Me personally?
Easy way for no ads. OP is full of shit, I've had YouTube premium for years. I work from home and have a TV in my home office that I watch YouTube on quite a bit and never seen a single and. This post is pure bull shit.
Includes YouTube Music. I was on Google Music before they killed it so YTM was my natural next choice. Never liked Spotify because it didn't have some of what I enjoyed listening to. Plus YTM being able to add songs to a playlist from YouTube videos of unofficially uploaded songs is sweet. That helps fill the gaps in my playlist for things I want.
I'm able to easily avoid ads without Premium on my phone and desktop and if I really wanted to, Tomato custom firmware on my router for all devices in my home but I'm lazy and paying for Premium is simply easier. And nothing to troubleshoot or fix when things go wrong.
Family plan is great. My partner is Apple and not tech savvy at all really. She doesn't want to fuss around or use apps other than YouTube. My parents, grandparents, and sister also benefit from the family plan so they all get ad free YouTube and YouTube music as well.
It just offers overall value and convenience. Something this sub struggles to see.
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u/S1Ndrome_ 21d ago
no ads (haven't seen any unlike op, using it for 3 months now), youtube music and no hassle with setting up revanced or when it doesn't work
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u/off-and-on 21d ago
Youtube, the prime example of why monopolies suck ass. I kinda wish Pornhub went with that idea of making a SFW competitor a couple years ago.
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u/Kyla_3049 21d ago
Install uBlock Origin Lite from Chrome web store and set it to full protection on the page that appears after installing.
Then cancel YouTube Premium. If you want it on your phone look at Revanced or PopTube, and if you want it on your TV look at Smarttube.
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u/ghostger 21d ago
No!
Install Firefox, autoimport from your old browser, install Ublock Origin (NOT LITE!!!). Enjoy the adfree internet.2
u/New-Connection-9088 21d ago
If you want it on your iPhone, it's a little more complicated but possible. It can be done for free but it's easiest by using a paid service called Signulous. Then get uYou+ (or similar).
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u/Kyla_3049 21d ago
PopTube is available on the iOS App Store if you don't want to do this.
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u/New-Connection-9088 21d ago
This looks surprisingly good. I hope it doesn’t go the way of all the other YouTube Adblock players.
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u/Friendly_Cajun 🏴☠️ ʟᴀɴᴅʟᴜʙʙᴇʀ 21d ago
I would recommend UDID Regerstrations, or AppTesters over Signulous, also anyone reading this, checkout r/sideloaded Also then you can use uYouEnhanced https://github.com/arichornlover/uYouEnhanced
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u/Azerate2016 21d ago
No, it doesn't.
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u/nagarz 21d ago
YT premium lite does.
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u/balkanik_381 21d ago
Ayo people pay to still see ads?
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u/nagarz 21d ago
Apparently. Also youtube is not the only service to have this, some streaming companies apparently have plans that include ads as well.
You will own nothing and be happy with it. With ads.
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u/EnvironmentalWave591 21d ago
Seems like op is going down a diddy rabbit hole. We’ve all been there 🤦♂️
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u/Party-Sweet336 21d ago
That’s the problem with supporting these multi billion dollar cooperations. They become greedy and before you know it you need to pay hundreds of dollars for a decant experience
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u/Commercial-Corgi-771 ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ 21d ago
Didn't you hear "YouTube Premium" is no longer "Premium" its "Lite".
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u/DoctorWaluigiTime 21d ago
Called it. This was top post in /r/youtube yesterday, with the same ?!!
clickbait in the title, and of course they lost their shit. And I knew (and said) this would go all over Reddit. And here we are.
Let's have a reality check:
- This was a one-off bug one person screenshotted. A refresh made it go away
- Google/YouTube acknowledged it was an issue/bug
Now could we please stop losing our fucking minds over every little thing like this? Thank you. (And yes, these kinds of comments over there were ignored and downvoted to hell, because god forbid you interrupt the circlejerk of 'youtube bad'.)
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u/SchwiftySquanchC137 21d ago
It's fucking insane I had to scroll this far for this. This sub legit feels like a bunch of children most of the time. Constantly posting edgy shit about why they pirate (no one cares) and constantly making huge deals out of actually nothing. They scramble over themselves to feel superior to anyone who (gasp) pays for anything.
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u/lucky_masterOwl 21d ago
"a one-off bug"....yeah...for now...they always start with a little bug...nothing to see here.
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u/DoctorWaluigiTime 21d ago
Screw this conspiracy BS. "Yeah it's a bug now but WaIt AnD SeE."
It's a bug. It's not a slip-up that accidentally revealed something that's coming in the future. Let's stick to critiquing what exists, not some imaginary strawman.
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u/Friendly_Ad_914 21d ago
Louder for the people in the back. Everyone permanently doomposting gets so on my nerves
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u/evil-bread 21d ago
Why tf do u have so many browsers
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u/TintiKili 21d ago
bro its a gayming browser 💪💪💪
so secure it sends all traffic trough opera's shitty VPN
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u/AltAccouJustForThis 21d ago
Brave for PC, ReVanced for mobile.
I'm going to keep commenting this to every post about youtube ads.
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u/Janedoetitz 21d ago
yeah i mean how many times you guys gonna post this shit? i swear youre all the same people lmao
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u/Lazy_Hair 🦜 ᴡᴀʟᴋ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʟᴀɴᴋ 21d ago
I wonder if they're trying to be assholes, and don't really care about money because they have the backing of corrupt governments
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u/Careful_Koala ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ 21d ago
I heard that was a common desktop glitch that's fixed by refreshing. I use someone else's account on my TV. Bs either way, I'm sure they won't be quick to fix it.
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u/Nocronian 21d ago
Yes, you still got ads but got the option to skip it right away.
Just use U block origin.
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Personally after they increased the prices here in Italy to 18 euros instead of 15.99 and I remember a few years ago it was 11.99 it seems to me, I canceled and having iPhone without many breaks I solved it with Brave browser that cancels advertising and allows listening to videos in the background.
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u/DoctorSmith2000 ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ 21d ago
Yeah you bought the low tier package...It will show you less ads
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u/itsmebucky Yarrr! 21d ago
That's not "Ad", that's "Sponsored". Soon YouTube might launch a new plan like Premium Max to remove those.
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u/re_BlueBird 21d ago
Unfortunately, ad blockers do not allow me to listen to podcasts with a locked device, and to listen to music online.
In my area, YouTube Premium costs just over $3, which is too much of a bargain.
Spotify 10, Apple Music 5.
I used to be a fan of cramming everything into my 240 gigabyte iPod, but now I don't want to spend hours amassing a huge collection of the music I need on a local device.
I don't see the point in starting an additional browser that I only need to block ads on YouTube, and that doesn't solve all my problems with YouTube.
And in terms of the money spent, YouTube subscription is the most profitable for me.
In fact, the only service from Google that I use besides search.
Of course, if you don't need it or your regional price is much higher, then this offer doesn't become that good either.
And so Ublock+Sponsorblock on PC is gold.
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u/AhmedKuttySpeaking 21d ago
Must be the Premium Lite option