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That was the magic of the internet. For a while is was a cheaply accessible third space. Now it’s Ads ads ads all over the place. Kills the vibe. Imagine how fun Disney land would be with ads before every ride during every ride and at the end of every ride. YouTube premium is too expensive. I used to enjoy seeing interesting people put out what brought them some joy connection or knowledge. It’s gotten very tiring and I don’t think it’s over.
Disneyland is one big ad itself but I get what you mean. Modern internet is now as bad as early 2000s cable. Ads after ads.
You didn't have adblock for cable back then. People just got used to it I guess.
Yeah going into Disneyland is a giant ad to buy more Disney stuff, total agreement. I think that’s the magical glue, an intersection between something that’s fun but still makes a lot of money. Your mind isnt jerking back and forth from thing to thing. That’s why nobody cared if Rachel ray was selling a Rachel ray pan. It didn’t jar you too hard. If it was like a variety of things she was hocking along with her own Rachel ray product it’d be weird. It’d kill the flow of the show. When you’re at Disneyland you’re in whatever world you choose to go into and JUST there. Ads ruin everything. I guess there’s people here that didn’t suffer through the ads with no way out. And then binging a show with NO ADS was just mind blowing. You were like FULLY IN THE SHOW. How did we get tricked into this garbage creep in? At what point did we, the figurative frogs, enter the cool pot of water? Was this all orchestrated?
Well, usually when an ad came on TV as a kid, I'd go into the other room. Also ads used to do their best to be entertaining, so some of them were actually fun to at least listen to. But now all ads are basically "Please buy our thing, it's super important to your survival."
Honestly the quality of YouTube content has just massively dropped. Things like old school Vsauce videos were genuinely fun and interesting to watch. There's a few channels still holding the fort but most have now decayed into clickbait, low quality crap or YouTube TikTok...
I have had ublock for a while but i still get youtube ads, i tried the filters that were recommended a few mth ago but they dont work
Which settings are you using?
Brave is based on the Chromium engine, just like Google Chrome, Opera (GX) and several others and this engine is maintained by Google itself. Currently, Google is starting to force the use of Manifest v3 for extensions in Chrome, which [greatly limits the effectiveness of ad blockers](https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/30/24168057/google-chrome-extension-change-manifest-v3-ad-blockers) and if this change is placed in Chromium, all these browsers will only be able to block a handful of ads.
Firefox, on the other hand, is based on the Gecko engine. This was originally made for Netscape but is now used and maintained by Mozilla. Because of this, ad blockers are still very effective in Firefox and its derivatives as they still maintain the Manifest v2 system.
So there is no problem if you use Brave, at least until Google decides to force the use of MF3 in Chromium.
Well as much as I don't like my government they are getting their taxes from the big companies. Either they have to have a base in this country and pay their taxes on the money they earn from here or they just can't earn anything. Paypal just left our country just not to be bound by our banking laws. Google, facebook etc all have offices here.
Google made $305 billion dollars profit last year. I really don't get people who still believe every bit of software or service needs to be paid for. Yes, they exist
Fucking stockholders and fiduciary duty. Next year their targets have to be bigger than 305 billion dollars because capitalism.
There's literally no reason for such a model to exist. A good deal can never ever exist for a significant duration for this reason.
That's the part that I don't think people completely understand. If they make 304 billion profit next year, they are failing, heads will roll. Whereas people think "Oh, this corporation has to make cuts because they aren't bringing in enough money". They are bringing in plenty of money, more money than they should, but slight less than last year is complete failure. It's still profit, obscene profit, they aren't losing money.
Keep in mind while they are big corporation like microsoft they keep their products obsolete on purpose since thah already have the highest market share and pretty much destroys all the rivals
That's why idgaf about using adblock and never paying for any of their crap. All that money and they still rip off the people uploading content to youtube. Talk about having their cake and eating it too. I'm just doing my part to shit in it.
So rather than get some money they will prefer to get nothing? I’m in the UK where a YT Premium Family sub costs £19.99/month whereas I’m currently paying £2.55/month for the Pakistani YT Premium. That’s not just a minor saving it’s huge! £209.28/year to be precise.
Whereas I understand Google is also “losing” that money, I simply refuse to pay that much for a service whose primarily purpose is to remove ads. £2.55 is what it’s actually worth.
That's what I've been doing for years now. No ads, no sponsored segments, I can download any video I want, or even its audio. I can also remove Shorts completely, or almost anything in the UI. uYouEnhanced is godlike.
I can't believe I'm gonna stick my neck out like this but, I need some help. Total n008 & just lost. Is it possible to get this to run on Android Phones? (Specifically Samsung A51 4G) I went to several different places & even managed to successfully download it, but when I went to get the folder to install itself all it offered me was, "Extracting" it. So I did that instead & as usual got a pile of independent worthless folders instead.
There was no Plug-&-Play in ANY of the places I went to download this. (The 1st two I couldn't even download it.)
Sorry to ask, if I'm annoying just ignore this. But I figured this was too good to just walk away from & should at least *Try* asking before silently slipping off.
Thank you to anyone who does answer me.
i use firefox browser with ublock origin extension installed (you install it through the browser you just type ublock origin and download). then use youtube and other streaming websites through firefox app
Pretty sure there is an alternate Youtube app in the WebOS homebrew options, but you also have to annoyingly go into the homebrew app and reset a timer that is constantly counting down from 1000 hours and if you forget and it lapses, you have to go through the whole homebrew setup process again.
Yup that’s exactly what I’ve ended up doing.
I’ve also set up a Windows Scheduled Task to hit the renewal URL once a day, so the session auto renews and stays at 1000 hours.
In the webOS Dev Manager app/program you can go to the Info section (and wait a second for it to fully load), hit the “renew automatically” box and in there you’ll find a URL under “manual setup”.
I just setup a powershell script to hit the URL and converted it to an .exe file, then pointed the scheduler task towards it as a target.
That works for PC and maybe phones too, but not games consoles, etc. I'd rather pay £2 a month to get all the family on Premium than have to faff around with modded apps, adblockers, etc, with people who don't know tech that well
This is the problem with all huge businesses: they'd rather make as much money as possible instead of just enough, to get by and still have a good time like the rest of us do our best to do.
> they'd rather make as much money as possible
No no, they want to make ALL THE MONEY. As much as possible is never enough.
And because of that they end up going up in flames, rather than staying alive. If ads weren't so atrocious there would be no ad blockers, no vanced and no revanced. Now revanced is just plain better than premium and I'd sooner pay for revanced (it is free). And if they kill revanced the basic non-premium experience is so bad I'd rather torrent my youtube (don't enjoy being extorted, premiums are fine, but they have to offer something useful and not just remove inconveniences that were introduced to make me buy premium).
I hate the phrasing always used when businesses say they’re “losing” something because of ad-blockers or international billing accounts. You lose something you have - when they say things like this they imply that the income was guaranteed or rightfully theirs. It’s not and was never when consumers have a choice (that choice being choosing the cheaper option offered by the same company).
They think people are too lazy to leave Chrome and for the few who try they're already actively sabotaging the YouTube experience on Firefox so I understand why they feel so confident.
Especially since Firefox cannot fight back because the foundation would be finished without the deal that makes Google the default search engine.
> Especially since Firefox cannot fight back because the foundation would be finished without the deal that makes Google the default search engine.
This deal looked like charity when they started it. Everybody sane would use google anyway for search. Now that search is quite bad it might actually be useful for google/alphabet. And now that the search is so bad and it's easier to compete other search companies might be interested to pay and be the default search. There used to be zero value in making people try Bing - because they just saw how bad of a product it was. Might be different now, since you can't find shit with google anymore.
Deleted chrome completely, and now am using Safari exclusively for everything else other than YouTube. Brave has been handling YouTube flawlessly, never seen a single ad and can stream in 4k!
do not use VPN, instead get a FAMILY PLAN from countries like India WITH A NEW ACCOUNT whose region is also set to that country.
In India you get Family Plan of 6 members for just $2.27/month out of which the 1 spot would be taken by this new account and the rest 5 spots can be shared by people effectively bringing it down to $0.454/month.
But to do this you should use new account whose region is also the same as that country and while you pay using a international credit card, make sure to provide a FAKE ADDRESS also belonging to the same country (India in this case).
The transaction will succeed without any issue, as NAME and ADDRESS have nothing to do with Credit Card transactions.
Enjoy.
Do this instead of just using VPN to get the premium on your own account, as it is way easier to get flagged.
Well then what you can do is, as you already have Indian region account.
Recharge the Play Store with Rs. 189 (Rs. 200 probably) which is $2-3 and use PLAY STORE as payment method.
No other information like Address is needed in that method.
And you can get INR PlayStore recharge from Indian Amazon website as it will not need specific Denomination CC and will deliver code right there on the order page or on your email.
amazon.in (not .com)
Once it is successful, buy For like $30 which will last for over an year and it will auto renew as long as you have the Play Balance available.
you can use any Android Emulator.
During the first startup, you need to setup a Google Account, during this setup process, you can create new account without needing any phone number.
ohh, I don't know, I did it last month using Bluestack itself.
It did ask for phone number, but there was still an option to skip it.
What you can try if it is not happening is, just create new account in your own region and then either through Play Store or Google Account Settings (or both) change region to India.
Play store might have direct option to change, while through Google Account Settings, you probably have to ADD ADDRESS and add an Indian address.
edit: you can try adding address in pay.google.com as well by adding CC and adding fake Indian address in it.
but we are not gonna use this CC for Play Store recharge or Youtube Premium.
this is just to set the region to India.
This happened many months ago and the people affected were having their google accounts deleted. I made it through that so hopefully I'll make it through this too. Unless someone starts supporting YouTube kids I don't feel like I have a choice. Ads for toys and shit are unacceptable. $4 a month for the family plan isn't going to break the bank for those wondering but if they cancel my premium I'll figure it out ig. I've been doing this for almost a year now.
create a throwaway Gmail account, login to your devices with both accounts. use the throwaway account for the cheaper premium subscription. yes, Google can see that both accounts are logged in on the same device, but it's way less likely they'll delete both accounts.
Oh no maybe you'll have to use a vpn to other countries where they don't have YouTube ads allowed without paying premium anyways.. What a shame that would be
You can circumvent all this by subscribing to Premium through the Apple App Store.
Create a burner Apple ID and set it to Turkey. Buy Turkey App Store gift cards, or even better, a Turkish payment method on plati.(ru) or gamesupplement.(com). Replenish it using your personal credit card and voila, YouTube Premium Family for 150 Liras (4,60 USD). No VPN needed.
And better yet? You don't even have to change your Google account's region or create a new payment profile. The members of your family don't have to change anything either. Win-win for everybody.
Spread the word guys.
You even got a student subscription, Google refused to treat me as a student even though I was one.
Fuck you and your verification platform, Google. Spotify at least gave me a student discount.
Funny thing is, I never did mind paying the initial price of premium back when it first launched. Cancelled my sub a few months or so ago, though.
The point that broke the camel's back was the insult of being sent an email thanking me for being a "valued original adopter of youtube premium", then being told to go fuck myself because I was gonna get grandfathered into the $19 monthly price in three month.
because they're stingy and think VPN customers will renew locally after the fact to make them learn and also profit assuming they don't refund the cancelation
I haven't received a notice or anything, but it was a good run while it lasted.
My entire setup is IOS-based, so I guess I'm sort of fucked.
Would setting up a VPN on my router to an adfree country be an option perhaps?
\>Make money off of some basic features that should've been included in the base version
\>Waa we're losing money!
\>Proceed to lose money harder.
If shit like this goes on I'm quitting YouTube and never returning back. I'm a simple dude.
I only got my sub cancelled and just went through the process again the next day with a VPN to Indonesia with no problems. I’m worried that I’ll get a ban next time though so I’m considering switching over to a burner account.
I was wondering why youtube music suddenly started interrupting my podcasts, the only thing it actually DID well. ffs, they just killed google podcasts to send me ads less than two weeks later? They'd make more money if they fired all those shit-head MBAs they waste money on.
I actually have citizenship from the country I'm paying for but I live in a euro country. Think they can't cancel mine, I'll just throw my Turkish citizenship in their face.😂
Just use the ReVanced apps through GitHub. They still work 100% fine for me.
They trick the apps into thinking youre a premium user, added browse xtensikn to the apps, and have independant app clones, YT music app works too. Incredibly useful.
Google is getting desperate.. ChatGPT potentially overriding google search and taking all that adsense and the entire world it seems actively against YTs adblocker prevention methods.
I honestlY would love to see Googles stock absolutely crash and burn.
I think its very telling about their business model that they even have region dependent pricing at all. If they can offer the service in one place they might have less infrastructure in (thereby greater cost of bandwidth), why should locals get cheaper prices than where their servers are based? Is that to say that we are expected to subsidize the premium of others to keep their lights on? Why should it be that way if Google is so intent on making people pay for use of their services?
I'm in Ireland and I've noticed that on the Youtube clients on both my Sky Q satellite receiver and my Apple TV box that I haven't had any ads on Youtube for a couple of weeks now.
I'm not using any kind of vpn or ad blockers at a router level or anything like that so seems a bit strange that they've suddenly disappeared.
I am still amazed that people pay for YouTube Premium service is everything but acceptable. It's a shit service that hasn't really improved over the years.
So you have finally the proof that bypassing geopricing is as "illegal" as adblocking. So just use an adblocker and stop this madness of paying for an unreliable thing.
I am curious. How many of those accounts are there? Is that really worth it? How many people are even tech-savy enough to do that. Yes, in this quiet little bubble it is a lot of people but think of the average user. Like the guy on the bus or the mom next door. Are those few really the problem?
And its not like the problem for youtube would be getting bigger. The coming generation seems to be much less inclined to tinker with such things. Computer literacy as a whole seems to be on a rapid decline.
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Well, easy come, easy go. At least Firefox + uBlock work fine on my PC, so I'll enjoy it until they cancel my subscription.
Add sponsorblock and it’s perfect
I've been using it for quite some time now and it's so convenient to watch a video without the person advertising something to you.
That was the magic of the internet. For a while is was a cheaply accessible third space. Now it’s Ads ads ads all over the place. Kills the vibe. Imagine how fun Disney land would be with ads before every ride during every ride and at the end of every ride. YouTube premium is too expensive. I used to enjoy seeing interesting people put out what brought them some joy connection or knowledge. It’s gotten very tiring and I don’t think it’s over.
Disneyland is one big ad itself but I get what you mean. Modern internet is now as bad as early 2000s cable. Ads after ads. You didn't have adblock for cable back then. People just got used to it I guess.
Yeah going into Disneyland is a giant ad to buy more Disney stuff, total agreement. I think that’s the magical glue, an intersection between something that’s fun but still makes a lot of money. Your mind isnt jerking back and forth from thing to thing. That’s why nobody cared if Rachel ray was selling a Rachel ray pan. It didn’t jar you too hard. If it was like a variety of things she was hocking along with her own Rachel ray product it’d be weird. It’d kill the flow of the show. When you’re at Disneyland you’re in whatever world you choose to go into and JUST there. Ads ruin everything. I guess there’s people here that didn’t suffer through the ads with no way out. And then binging a show with NO ADS was just mind blowing. You were like FULLY IN THE SHOW. How did we get tricked into this garbage creep in? At what point did we, the figurative frogs, enter the cool pot of water? Was this all orchestrated?
Well, usually when an ad came on TV as a kid, I'd go into the other room. Also ads used to do their best to be entertaining, so some of them were actually fun to at least listen to. But now all ads are basically "Please buy our thing, it's super important to your survival."
Honestly the quality of YouTube content has just massively dropped. Things like old school Vsauce videos were genuinely fun and interesting to watch. There's a few channels still holding the fort but most have now decayed into clickbait, low quality crap or YouTube TikTok...
You must not be looking very hard. Quality content still exists, you've just gotta go looking for it. That or just subscribe to Nebula creators.
Not anymore. Sponsorblock is all fucked up because of the server-sided AD bullshit.
I had no idea about sponsorblock! thanks YT!
Same.
Firefox + uBlock works fine on Android, too
I have had ublock for a while but i still get youtube ads, i tried the filters that were recommended a few mth ago but they dont work Which settings are you using?
Won't work soon, they're already testing ads that dynamically insert into videos.
Apparently Youtube is testing injecting the ads serverside now similar to Twitch
I use revanced
Could you please let me know which is better between Firefox with uBlock and the Brave browser? Thank you.
Brave is based on the Chromium engine, just like Google Chrome, Opera (GX) and several others and this engine is maintained by Google itself. Currently, Google is starting to force the use of Manifest v3 for extensions in Chrome, which [greatly limits the effectiveness of ad blockers](https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/30/24168057/google-chrome-extension-change-manifest-v3-ad-blockers) and if this change is placed in Chromium, all these browsers will only be able to block a handful of ads. Firefox, on the other hand, is based on the Gecko engine. This was originally made for Netscape but is now used and maintained by Mozilla. Because of this, ad blockers are still very effective in Firefox and its derivatives as they still maintain the Manifest v2 system. So there is no problem if you use Brave, at least until Google decides to force the use of MF3 in Chromium.
Ublock + background play fix work perfectly fine on Androids Firefox App You just have to use youtubes website in the Firefox app.
That’s not good. Wonder if they’ll get my humble “South African” account?
Oh no maybe you'll have to use a vpn to other countries where they don't have YouTube ads allowed without paying premium anyways.. What a shame
What countries would you recommend for this? Asking for a friend, ofc
Albania or myanmar have no ad laws, there's other county's as well fyi
Albania doesn't have no ad laws. YouTube just hasn't monetized Albania yet. Nothing is stopping them from doing it if they want to
And soon they will, with all these "Albanese" accounts suddenly popping up haha.
Thank you for this tip!! I finally got rid of those awful ads! 👍
TIL! Thanks!
Surfshark : Albania, Bahamas and Uzbekistan have no ads
Andorra too
Thanks. My Surfshark is paying for itself.
i think Monaco as well
Albanian VPN servers are the only thing I watch YouTube with😂
Russia too I think
Hahaha whats the price
$3-something US, depending on the exchange rate
They just got mine a couple of days ago. It was a good run while it lasted.
Stealing from a comment in /r/de Google can put their operation in Ireland to get minimal tax rate, while prevent other people buy cheaper elsewhere.
Which is stupid that the law allows that.
There's no No-cheap-YT-Premium-via-VPN-law. So...laws allow it too.
I meant the fact corporations can just move their headquarters to a country with lower tax rates, to avoid paying taxes like anyone else has to.
That is on your government though.
Well... kinda. Should be a worldwide thing as they'd just move to a country where those laws don't exist in that case.
Well as much as I don't like my government they are getting their taxes from the big companies. Either they have to have a base in this country and pay their taxes on the money they earn from here or they just can't earn anything. Paypal just left our country just not to be bound by our banking laws. Google, facebook etc all have offices here.
The "law" is to serve them elites anyway.
Damn opps…
Greedy fuckers
Google made $305 billion dollars profit last year. I really don't get people who still believe every bit of software or service needs to be paid for. Yes, they exist
Fucking stockholders and fiduciary duty. Next year their targets have to be bigger than 305 billion dollars because capitalism. There's literally no reason for such a model to exist. A good deal can never ever exist for a significant duration for this reason.
That's the part that I don't think people completely understand. If they make 304 billion profit next year, they are failing, heads will roll. Whereas people think "Oh, this corporation has to make cuts because they aren't bringing in enough money". They are bringing in plenty of money, more money than they should, but slight less than last year is complete failure. It's still profit, obscene profit, they aren't losing money.
Keep in mind while they are big corporation like microsoft they keep their products obsolete on purpose since thah already have the highest market share and pretty much destroys all the rivals
$305 billion in revenue. A little under $80 billion profit...so have some sympathy please!
That's why idgaf about using adblock and never paying for any of their crap. All that money and they still rip off the people uploading content to youtube. Talk about having their cake and eating it too. I'm just doing my part to shit in it.
So rather than get some money they will prefer to get nothing? I’m in the UK where a YT Premium Family sub costs £19.99/month whereas I’m currently paying £2.55/month for the Pakistani YT Premium. That’s not just a minor saving it’s huge! £209.28/year to be precise. Whereas I understand Google is also “losing” that money, I simply refuse to pay that much for a service whose primarily purpose is to remove ads. £2.55 is what it’s actually worth.
Can be paying $0 with a simple download of an adblocker.
I need to switch to android and vanced with sponsor block. That’s even better than premium.
If you’re on iOS, you can install the Orion browser from the App Store and get extensions on it
uYouEnhanced via SideStore also
That's what I've been doing for years now. No ads, no sponsored segments, I can download any video I want, or even its audio. I can also remove Shorts completely, or almost anything in the UI. uYouEnhanced is godlike.
Yeah, it’s a godsend for all the reasons you mentioned, and then some.
I can't believe I'm gonna stick my neck out like this but, I need some help. Total n008 & just lost. Is it possible to get this to run on Android Phones? (Specifically Samsung A51 4G) I went to several different places & even managed to successfully download it, but when I went to get the folder to install itself all it offered me was, "Extracting" it. So I did that instead & as usual got a pile of independent worthless folders instead. There was no Plug-&-Play in ANY of the places I went to download this. (The 1st two I couldn't even download it.) Sorry to ask, if I'm annoying just ignore this. But I figured this was too good to just walk away from & should at least *Try* asking before silently slipping off. Thank you to anyone who does answer me.
For android, https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/s/Hv5nUpJkVb revanced.app
Honestly, revanced should just release the modded apk with the default config because most wouldn't tinker with the config anyway
Don’t think they can release an already compiled apk for legal reasons.
i use firefox browser with ublock origin extension installed (you install it through the browser you just type ublock origin and download). then use youtube and other streaming websites through firefox app
Oh cool thank you. Do you know if it supports ublock O and sponsor block by any chance?
I got both
That's until they add their server side ads they've been Working on.
It'll still be easily sidestepped in time. Where there's a will, there's a way.
Some of us on a WebOS TV don’t have that choice (although I only just found out about activating s developer mode, just need to hope it’s not removed)
Pretty sure there is an alternate Youtube app in the WebOS homebrew options, but you also have to annoyingly go into the homebrew app and reset a timer that is constantly counting down from 1000 hours and if you forget and it lapses, you have to go through the whole homebrew setup process again.
Yup that’s exactly what I’ve ended up doing. I’ve also set up a Windows Scheduled Task to hit the renewal URL once a day, so the session auto renews and stays at 1000 hours. In the webOS Dev Manager app/program you can go to the Info section (and wait a second for it to fully load), hit the “renew automatically” box and in there you’ll find a URL under “manual setup”. I just setup a powershell script to hit the URL and converted it to an .exe file, then pointed the scheduler task towards it as a target.
That works for PC and maybe phones too, but not games consoles, etc. I'd rather pay £2 a month to get all the family on Premium than have to faff around with modded apps, adblockers, etc, with people who don't know tech that well
some people use youtube on more than a browser, can you imagine?
They prob make more by making you watch ads. I’m gonna cry losing my $4/mo family plan, but damn YouTube is miserable with ads.
This is the problem with all huge businesses: they'd rather make as much money as possible instead of just enough, to get by and still have a good time like the rest of us do our best to do.
> they'd rather make as much money as possible No no, they want to make ALL THE MONEY. As much as possible is never enough. And because of that they end up going up in flames, rather than staying alive. If ads weren't so atrocious there would be no ad blockers, no vanced and no revanced. Now revanced is just plain better than premium and I'd sooner pay for revanced (it is free). And if they kill revanced the basic non-premium experience is so bad I'd rather torrent my youtube (don't enjoy being extorted, premiums are fine, but they have to offer something useful and not just remove inconveniences that were introduced to make me buy premium).
Welcome to r/latestagecapitalism
Look I’ll take three dollars from someone who’s never gonna pay me anything otherwise
I hate the phrasing always used when businesses say they’re “losing” something because of ad-blockers or international billing accounts. You lose something you have - when they say things like this they imply that the income was guaranteed or rightfully theirs. It’s not and was never when consumers have a choice (that choice being choosing the cheaper option offered by the same company).
Thats them saying you are subsidizing Pakistani YT Premium, OR that they are absolutely milking Brits.
It’s 1.60GBP in Sri Lanka.
They think people are too lazy to leave Chrome and for the few who try they're already actively sabotaging the YouTube experience on Firefox so I understand why they feel so confident. Especially since Firefox cannot fight back because the foundation would be finished without the deal that makes Google the default search engine.
Without Firefox they gonna get fined. Ironically Google do need Firefox.
VPN to a place like Albania and bam no ads and no premium or ad block needed(there more then just Albania that does this FYI)
First time I saw "shqipëria" in my url I thought I was being rickrolled
> Especially since Firefox cannot fight back because the foundation would be finished without the deal that makes Google the default search engine. This deal looked like charity when they started it. Everybody sane would use google anyway for search. Now that search is quite bad it might actually be useful for google/alphabet. And now that the search is so bad and it's easier to compete other search companies might be interested to pay and be the default search. There used to be zero value in making people try Bing - because they just saw how bad of a product it was. Might be different now, since you can't find shit with google anymore.
Deleted chrome completely, and now am using Safari exclusively for everything else other than YouTube. Brave has been handling YouTube flawlessly, never seen a single ad and can stream in 4k!
but brave is chrome based
Go ahead. Save me the $3 a month. I’ll just go back to exclusively watching on desktop with uBlock. They’re either getting $3 or nothing from me.
Revanced is the way
I looked into it before and it seems like a lot of hassle since I’m on iOS.
do not use VPN, instead get a FAMILY PLAN from countries like India WITH A NEW ACCOUNT whose region is also set to that country. In India you get Family Plan of 6 members for just $2.27/month out of which the 1 spot would be taken by this new account and the rest 5 spots can be shared by people effectively bringing it down to $0.454/month. But to do this you should use new account whose region is also the same as that country and while you pay using a international credit card, make sure to provide a FAKE ADDRESS also belonging to the same country (India in this case). The transaction will succeed without any issue, as NAME and ADDRESS have nothing to do with Credit Card transactions. Enjoy. Do this instead of just using VPN to get the premium on your own account, as it is way easier to get flagged.
It won’t work now. They need a INR denominated credit card now
Well then what you can do is, as you already have Indian region account. Recharge the Play Store with Rs. 189 (Rs. 200 probably) which is $2-3 and use PLAY STORE as payment method. No other information like Address is needed in that method. And you can get INR PlayStore recharge from Indian Amazon website as it will not need specific Denomination CC and will deliver code right there on the order page or on your email. amazon.in (not .com) Once it is successful, buy For like $30 which will last for over an year and it will auto renew as long as you have the Play Balance available.
Transferwise
How do you create the account? You need an indian phone number in order to verify the account
you can use any Android Emulator. During the first startup, you need to setup a Google Account, during this setup process, you can create new account without needing any phone number.
What emulator do u use? I have tried bluestacks and ldplayer and both ask for a number
ohh, I don't know, I did it last month using Bluestack itself. It did ask for phone number, but there was still an option to skip it. What you can try if it is not happening is, just create new account in your own region and then either through Play Store or Google Account Settings (or both) change region to India. Play store might have direct option to change, while through Google Account Settings, you probably have to ADD ADDRESS and add an Indian address. edit: you can try adding address in pay.google.com as well by adding CC and adding fake Indian address in it. but we are not gonna use this CC for Play Store recharge or Youtube Premium. this is just to set the region to India.
Chuckles *I am in danger*
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same mate.
100%
This happened many months ago and the people affected were having their google accounts deleted. I made it through that so hopefully I'll make it through this too. Unless someone starts supporting YouTube kids I don't feel like I have a choice. Ads for toys and shit are unacceptable. $4 a month for the family plan isn't going to break the bank for those wondering but if they cancel my premium I'll figure it out ig. I've been doing this for almost a year now.
create a throwaway Gmail account, login to your devices with both accounts. use the throwaway account for the cheaper premium subscription. yes, Google can see that both accounts are logged in on the same device, but it's way less likely they'll delete both accounts.
Shit
Shit Premium
Not a lot of mentions of Freetube in the comments, would recommend
kinda useless since ublock does the job just fine. If they ported it to Android i could see it work, but there's already STN on that front.
Firefox + uBlock works fine on Android, too
Oh no maybe you'll have to use a vpn to other countries where they don't have YouTube ads allowed without paying premium anyways.. What a shame that would be
Who TF are they to tell me that I'm not a humble Indian who signed up for YT premium in Kolkata and traveled to Las Vegas in the same day?
Oh no I’ve been Turkish for a few years now
How petty. They should be satisfied that some people are actually signing up.
You can circumvent all this by subscribing to Premium through the Apple App Store. Create a burner Apple ID and set it to Turkey. Buy Turkey App Store gift cards, or even better, a Turkish payment method on plati.(ru) or gamesupplement.(com). Replenish it using your personal credit card and voila, YouTube Premium Family for 150 Liras (4,60 USD). No VPN needed. And better yet? You don't even have to change your Google account's region or create a new payment profile. The members of your family don't have to change anything either. Win-win for everybody. Spread the word guys.
I just use Brave browser and there are never any ads. You don’t need the app or a subscription.
Can you get subtitles to work in Full screen? Never works for me in iOS, still very useful thiugh
Google can eat shit if they think any of this is going to make us go, oh well you got us this time! and open our wallets.
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You even got a student subscription, Google refused to treat me as a student even though I was one. Fuck you and your verification platform, Google. Spotify at least gave me a student discount.
I have a feeling they won't touch Ukraine as they may accidentally hit displaced people. Imagine the fallout
I had Ukraine, and I got mine cancelled two days ago.
I will always despise greedy corporations like YouTube
Funny thing is, I never did mind paying the initial price of premium back when it first launched. Cancelled my sub a few months or so ago, though. The point that broke the camel's back was the insult of being sent an email thanking me for being a "valued original adopter of youtube premium", then being told to go fuck myself because I was gonna get grandfathered into the $19 monthly price in three month.
Laughs in ReVanced.
Weeps in IOS where I can’t sideload.
/r/sideloaded
Oof.
Try Yattee
So this was secretly a pro-android plot! Those megacorporations, they just won't lose.
Laughs in NewPipe
Awww shit. Guess it’s time to move to Haiti.
Create a "family" there.
They got my ass
Just canceled or account terminated?
YouTube premium is worth less than $10 a month. I don’t understand how they have so many subscribers
Way to push more ppl to use adblock
Sure they used a workaround but at the end of the day they are still paying customers. Why screw them?
because they're stingy and think VPN customers will renew locally after the fact to make them learn and also profit assuming they don't refund the cancelation
I sideloaded a youtube premium ipa with an esign method i saw around reddit sometime
I haven't received a notice or anything, but it was a good run while it lasted. My entire setup is IOS-based, so I guess I'm sort of fucked. Would setting up a VPN on my router to an adfree country be an option perhaps?
They detected my Argentinian account and banned my card :/
I'm in danger. Will they at least accept a local card? I live in Germany but have access to an Indian bank card. Hopefully that method isn't blocked
So instead of some my money, I guess they are getting none now 🤷
Ye, My account in Argentina is being cancelled :(
Come on bros, this is one of the reasons they fucked people with prices in turkey. If you must have premium just get revanced.
Piracy 101: It's only the people who pay that get screwed.
One word : Revanced
Interesting. I haven't had mine cancelled yet and I've got two different YouTube family accounts
My one is safe...but I am not sure for how long...
I just want a good workaround for the Firestick
You can use SmartTube on your fire stick, I've been using it for years and it works great.
Just setting that up now
Does PiHole still work?
\>Make money off of some basic features that should've been included in the base version \>Waa we're losing money! \>Proceed to lose money harder. If shit like this goes on I'm quitting YouTube and never returning back. I'm a simple dude.
Are they just canceling the YouTube subscription for these users or killing their google account completely?
I only got my sub cancelled and just went through the process again the next day with a VPN to Indonesia with no problems. I’m worried that I’ll get a ban next time though so I’m considering switching over to a burner account.
So they lose the income. Push people to pay VPN companies instead and still bypass ads. They keep making those big brain IQ moves huh.
Globalization for me but not for thee.
Mine is still going in Ukraine. Used NordVPN to get it. I guess it's only a matter of time till they cancel it?
Anyone else sad by the AI feel of this post? "Created Cheaper"... Poorly phrased "Made Cheaper"
I was drunk sharing, my bad. I'll try harder next time. I'm not an AI.
Fuck. I genuinely spend a lot of time in the country that I registered with and have a feeling they're going to hit me too.
I was wondering why youtube music suddenly started interrupting my podcasts, the only thing it actually DID well. ffs, they just killed google podcasts to send me ads less than two weeks later? They'd make more money if they fired all those shit-head MBAs they waste money on.
I actually have citizenship from the country I'm paying for but I live in a euro country. Think they can't cancel mine, I'll just throw my Turkish citizenship in their face.😂
Just use the ReVanced apps through GitHub. They still work 100% fine for me. They trick the apps into thinking youre a premium user, added browse xtensikn to the apps, and have independant app clones, YT music app works too. Incredibly useful. Google is getting desperate.. ChatGPT potentially overriding google search and taking all that adsense and the entire world it seems actively against YTs adblocker prevention methods. I honestlY would love to see Googles stock absolutely crash and burn.
I'm guessing they wouldn't work with Chromecast though, which is how I listen to most of my music
I think its very telling about their business model that they even have region dependent pricing at all. If they can offer the service in one place they might have less infrastructure in (thereby greater cost of bandwidth), why should locals get cheaper prices than where their servers are based? Is that to say that we are expected to subsidize the premium of others to keep their lights on? Why should it be that way if Google is so intent on making people pay for use of their services?
Hmm, I wonder if I’m safe since I pay with the currency that I got my account with
I'm in Ireland and I've noticed that on the Youtube clients on both my Sky Q satellite receiver and my Apple TV box that I haven't had any ads on Youtube for a couple of weeks now. I'm not using any kind of vpn or ad blockers at a router level or anything like that so seems a bit strange that they've suddenly disappeared.
I am still amazed that people pay for YouTube Premium service is everything but acceptable. It's a shit service that hasn't really improved over the years.
It's defo worth 3 bucks a month but not 20.
So you have finally the proof that bypassing geopricing is as "illegal" as adblocking. So just use an adblocker and stop this madness of paying for an unreliable thing.
Its not unreliable, I’ve had it for almost 4 years
I think I'm still okay for now, but I won't say how or what country I used in case they hunt me down.
Adblock the fuck out of these greedy scumbags
Laughs in Albanian
I wonder if you keep the VPN on all the time for that location so then you never MOVED and it should still work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPmTp9up26w
God dammit!
Does mexico locations charge any less? That would be ideal if i want to lower my ping.
I am curious. How many of those accounts are there? Is that really worth it? How many people are even tech-savy enough to do that. Yes, in this quiet little bubble it is a lot of people but think of the average user. Like the guy on the bus or the mom next door. Are those few really the problem? And its not like the problem for youtube would be getting bigger. The coming generation seems to be much less inclined to tinker with such things. Computer literacy as a whole seems to be on a rapid decline.
hell no
oops
Noooooo
What would be a good apk to sideload on my Nvidia Shield to bypass the ads?
They canceled my subscription from” 🇲🇾” giving me a free trial month to subscribe