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[–] Signtist@lemm.ee 185 points 2 years ago (23 children)

The Best Ways to Stand Up to your Bully

  1. Just give him your lunch money. It is one of the easiest ways to stand up to your bully.
[–] MxM111@kbin.social 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

False analogy. This is the best way not to get beaten immediately.

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[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 88 points 2 years ago (22 children)

I'm sure it's much harder to manage a Premium subscription than it is to simply install uBO

[–] cooopsspace 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

And an ad blocker should be part of everyone's personal and organisational security model regardless, so you'd have to install ublock and specifically turn it off for YouTube.

But of course, the reason people block ads is most of the Google ads were straight malware at one point.

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 19 points 2 years ago (20 children)

Can't use uBO from most of the devices I actually watch YouTube on.

For me, it's much easier to just pay for Premium. No ads on my phone, Playstation, Chromecast, or locked-down work laptop that I can't install extensions on.

And the creators whose content I consume still get paid for my views. Honestly, it's worth it for both my use-case and my morals.

[–] Millwiller@lemm.ee 24 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Revanced for android, SmartTube for android TV

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[–] xenspidey@lemmy.zip 17 points 2 years ago (23 children)

Not sure why you're getting downvoted, paying for services you use shouldn't be looked down upon. It's way easier then trying to always be ahead of the ad block blockers. I do block all ads on websites though

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I started Premium as Google Play Music back when. Made sense as an alternative to Spotify. In my book, it still does. Ad-free YouTube is just a bonus for a music streaming service.

[–] BigMoe@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 years ago

Agreed. Family plan is priced similar to Spotify, and ad free YouTube is a nice bonus

[–] copygirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

It could just have something to do with the fact that many people think ads are not only annoying but also highly manipulative, creating artificial needs in people, a tool to make already successful and rich companies even richer, ... and the surrounding technology to power them is unethical, hoarding tons of information, building profiles of people, tracking which websites they visit, what search terms they use, ...

When people talk about blocking ads, being frustrated about them showing up, it's just kind of disrespectful to be like "well you could just pay for the service, you know?". Besides, who knows how much actually ends up in the creators' pockets.

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[–] youngGoku@lemmy.world 77 points 2 years ago (24 children)

I would rather donate to ad blockers lel

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[–] kirk781@lemm.ee 55 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Whilst I am sure the article might be low quality ultimately, I still wish to see what other options they are advocating. This is clearly just a screenshot and only the first option for blocking ads.

[–] SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world 57 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

2. Use a mental block
Close your eyes for 8s - 25 min, and pretend not to hear anything

3. What? I can't hear you!
Why play one ad when you can play a dozen. Open multiple YouTube tabs at once and let the ads roll at the same time. A few minutes of noise for a whole few minutes of ad-free play

4. Use AdBlock Premium Plus
Of course, the best block is not loading the ads. Using the discount code AFFILIATEWHORE you can get a one year Pro plan for AdBlock Premium with six months free for just $169,- per year and enjoy the ad-free experience you deserve.

^(/s, of course)

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[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Ads are fucking annoying, but I'm still not sure how people are answering this question.

What should YouTube's business model be?

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

We can start with non-intrusive and non-personalized ads without any tracking.

Then if Google could stop getting greedier, they would have a business model that could sustain Youtube.

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[–] elrik@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Honestly I don't understand what's wrong with the subscription model. You get YouTube ad free and YouTube music.

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[–] Wilibus@lemmy.world 47 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

$3/month really means nothing to me, considering I already $18.99/month for a YouTube music family plan.

My issue is them purposely attempting to make my experience worse and then selling what they have arbitrarily taken away back to me.

If you product is so valuable the only way a conpany can sell it is to attack your user's experience so you pay them to stop it really starts drawing too many similarities to a mob protection racket.

EDIT: In order to be fully transparent, apparently inflation made a fool of me, the YouTube premium family plan has increased to $22.99/month so the difference would be $4 per month, not $3.

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[–] Jesusaurus@lemmy.world 36 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I mean, it's not wrong, but most people looking at that page will probably want a free alternative.

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago

Paying a sub is not blocking.

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[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 36 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I use NewPipe. You'll have to go looking for it though; it's not in the app store.

[–] ComradeWeebelo@lemm.ee 18 points 2 years ago

It'll never be in the play store either because the play store terms of service forbids apps that interfere with Googles revenue streams.

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 2 years ago (4 children)

revanced firefox newpipe..

[–] dadaredone@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago

libretube, skytube,clipious WI:piped,invidious.

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[–] iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Lmao with no further discussions?

Buddy this isn't a discussion. You can't force me to pay a dime.

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[–] badbytes@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Generally a supported of the company google, but when they hindered my adblocker, I tried to watch the ads. But they are too frequent, and occur without warning, arbitrarily in the middle of content. Kills medium like standup comedy.

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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just use Firefox/Fennec with adblocker, I've never seen an ad.

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

YouTube in a browser on mobile is clunky as hell. I'll stick with ReVanced.

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[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

These "tips" website were already pure garbage before, but now… eugh.

[–] Dragaliona@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

For that I just use Youtube ReVance Extended.

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[–] pensivepangolin@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Propaganda!

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