Combine that with the 83% price increase in Australia!
YouTube can eat shit, they’re screwing over even those of us willing to pay, Smarttube here I come!
As plenty of other people have already said, if YouTube Premium went up by a pittance every month (boiling frog price increases) I would probably keep subscribing. The fact that they A) clamped down on AdBlockers and B) increased Premium rates is a major disappointment.
Add to this that Patreon are introducing invasive User Agreements and it is getting more difficult to support Independent content creators.
Platforms like Curiosity Stream are looking more and more appealing to those of us who want interesting content and don’t mind parting with a reasonable amount of cash to support creators.
I wouldn’t give Google $32.99/m for YouTube, no matter how slowly they increased the price, that’s utterly ridiculous.
I’ve used Curiosity Stream and Nebula before, would happily go back.
Unfortunately nebula has started blacklisting creators they dont agree with, just cancelled my 2 year sub to them because they deleted second thoughts channels. Who was the sole reason I paid for that sub.
Unfortunately nebula has started blacklisting creators they dont agree with
Elaborate. Why were they banned? If it was kiddie creepers or nazi shit or “not fascists but #1 with fascists” shit like
I don’t blame them for that.For videos critical of Israel and the IOF.
Its jt from second thought
I appreciate the clarification. Usually when I hear “they censored something, how dare they” it’s something dire.
Yep! More people need to learn about Smarttube and Revanced!
Spread the word!
Definitely. They work way better than YouTube itself.
I’ve been a YouTube premium subscriber since before it existed. Last night I installed ReVanced.
It is not better than the default experience with premium. But it is pretty close. I’m using a patched version of the YouTube client, after all. The default client is not 🇦🇺$17/month better by a long shot.
I am still undecided on whether to wear the price increase. I have until March to decide.
I’ve heard others say that many people are uninstalling ad blockers.
I guess its just how you interpret the data
I’d disable mine on YouTube for the sake of ripping all the videos I want overnight, then consuming them at my leisure later on.
Basically what I’m doing already, just with an extra step.
Can’t you just use third party cleints
I’m assuming this will escalate to some insanely locked down DRM scheme. Guess I’ll enjoy uBlock, ReVanced and yt-dlp while I can
Well Google has recently been forcing through its awful Web Environment Integrity proposal so…
they cancelled that
It’s an assymetric cat-and-mouse game.
YouTube does it for revenue and has to spend money to enhance their anti-adblock system, while there is an army of volunteers online who will gladly defeat these enhancements for free with an impact on a massive scale.
But YouTube has A LOT of money
The Internet has A LOT of volunteers
I’m thankful for the volunteers but goodwill is not gonna last forever. Especially easy to burnout on goodwill when casual users goes apeshit on devs whenever things don’t work. The system is stacked against volunteers.
I figure that eventually the effort will shift to ways to rip and redistribute the content.
For every tech company with an r&d team fighting this stuff, there’s a plethora of programming wizards whose sole purpose in life is to defeat them.
Never would’ve guessed.
The worst-case endgame is, you can send the videos, but they’ll never reach my eyeballs. Send those frames to /dev/null and store the video stream where I can watch it as often as I like.
Laughs in revanced
Stopped working for me for some reason. Had to switch to Firefox mobile site
Remove it and use the patch manager to reinstall, make sure to use the recommended APK. It just requires manually updating sometimes, basically.
I tried to watch the Thursday night football recap yesterday and accidentally opened YouTube instead of smarttube. I was shocked. I watched a minute of ads to start and one minute in I had another minute of ads. YouTube was basically unwatchable.
I honestly don’t know how people can tolerate it.
I was wondering because I have yet to see an adblock warning and I use YouTube daily.
installing better adblockers
or just updating uBlock lol. not sure what YouTubes team was expecting here
Or worse, they are just using third party clients.
Are there any yt 3rd party that support chromecasting?
That is the only thing keeping me from switching away from the official app.
I pay for YouTube premium, but it’s a lot of money given they have $0 production cost.
