That's not an ad. That's a high quality premium product reminder. To remove these reminders please subscribe to YouTube Premium Plus.
There's also newpipe and libretube for android but neither play well on tablets. Good for the phone though.
But revance extended works great on both :-)
I like the game grumps and Lex Fridman. The documentaries are cool, but I have to watch them in a different container or YouTube will start feeding me 30 minute ads or rants that sound reasonable but are super bigoted and flawed when you actually think about it
Reddit meant more to me than anything else I do online, and I committed to leaving it behind even before I found Lemmy... YouTube is barely worth it even without the ads. And I've got a whole fediverse of video content to investigate
One of my oldest friends has recently started turning to the dark side, his PC died and he's run out of new shows to watch... so started watching stuff on YouTube via the suggestions.
It started off as debates between men and women... I warned him that it was going to suggest him more and more extreme stuff and the algo will walk him further to the right. Now he's quoting Andrew Tate, watching videos with conspiracies about great reset, ranting about trans people, ugh. When he said "the media is shoving trans in our face, all these trans personalities" I asked him to list these trans personalities, he couldn't list one. He's just spewing the rhetoric YT fed him. Very sad, he's not the only one being infected by this shit.
Or you can use Downloader if you use an Amazon TV device. (Screw you Google for removing Downloader)
Smarttube next is for Android TV. Works very well. Sometimes you do need to update (can be done in-app) after YouTube decides to break third party apps.
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does this support 4k? Anything i’ve used that says they do actually don’t. FreeTube, Invidious, Piped
In moments like these, I absolutely hate having a Tizen TV, I really need to get a Chromecast or something.
As someone who uses and really enjoys Youtube Premium this upsets me. Feels very counter-to what is agreed on purchase:
I wonder if it's possible to file a complaint as false advertisement. As part of the subscription it even says in the FAQ "ad-free" which this is definitely not. I'm not a lawyer though and this is not legal advice.
This reminds me of the "Ad free" tier of Paramount Plus. There were unskippable ads for other paramount shows. And the 5 second bumper counted as an ad and was unskippable.
I'm not a lawyer but anyone with a brain cell would agree this is false advertising at least, possibly breach of contract depending on what the TOS says.
This is why I would not want to pay a subscription to YouTube. I don't trust that they would ever truely work out all the ads
I've had Premium since it was called Red (got it through Google Music) and never see ads. Would be upset if I was OP, but haven't experienced that issue myself.
SmartTube - if you've got an Android streaming box (like an NVIDIA Shield Pro, for example), sideload it. You'll thank me later.
That's why I canceled Premium. I was still getting ads AND Google still used trackers. AND content creators get next to no money from it...
People love to shit on yt premium but it's single handedly the best value I've ever gotten out of a service. And I'm okay with financially supporting a service that I use a lot.
This is upsetting, though. I don't watch a ton on tv, but when I have I've never seen an ad like this pop up. I'll be watching out for them.
yeah, i basically have youtube on throughout the day so it's a good "investment" for me. but yeah, the deal is, i pay them, they don't show me ads (and sponsorblock does the rest) so this is quite wild.
Yep. This is the first legitimate "YouTube premium sucks" I've seen because it's not holding up their end of the transaction.
I haven't seen this happen to me yet and I use YouTube on my PC, my phone, and my TV via Alexa.
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So were at the point where we are paying for an experience with ads AND invasive trackers and personal data mining + psychological profiling just to watch videos? What the fuck, thats distopian AF.
All that paying does is prove you’ll pay whatever they want. Just like a blackmailer, it’s never enough. They always escalate in their attempts to extract “value”.
It’s the same damn story, time after time. “Oh, we put a few ads to cover expenses - it’ll be limited, we promise.” 3 months later: “We have a premium plan that hides ads.” Another 3 months: “We now have informational banners on premium for our own content. Since it’s our own, it’s totally not an ad!”
Then just: “Pay us a monthly rate and get served ads.”
It’s like fucking clockwork with these ghouls.
The $1/mo is for a student account. The regular account is $1.5/mo, and a family account is $2.3/mo. You'd probably need to use a VPN every time you wanted to renew it (monthly, I suppose). There are annual plans with a 10% discount, so you could probably go for an annual membership and have to do it only once a year.
Yes. I use a service so I pay for the service. I use software frameworks so I donate to their patreons.
Just install ublock origin, cancel the youtube subscription and donate the money to your favorite youtuber...
Do you happen to know of a replacement for Youtube Vanced? It stopped getting supported due to cease and desist, and now it only works like half the time... (idk why youtube doesn't create a version check and make it not work all the time, but w/e lmao I'll take what I can get)
there is a replacement called revanced, here is their github page.
You will have to compile the youtube app yourself, their revanced manager will help you with that.
And you have to download the latest supported version that is 18.19.35 from apk mirror.
If you need any more help feel free to ask me :)
Tutorial Revanced. Download the latest Revanced Manager App from here & install: https://github.com/revanced/revanced-manager/releases/tag/v1.3.5 After that uninstall every update of your installed YouTube. (Use Google for that) Start Revanced Manager - Patcher - Select application - YouTube. Now look at the "Suggested:" app version. Remember the version number, go to apkmirror.com, search for YouTube and the right version number. Download and install. Restart Revanced Manager, Patcher, select, YouTube. Suggested and current should be the same version numbers now. Go to selected patches, click on default (if you don't know what you are doing), click done. Click on patch, wait a bit. While it's repacking go to your Youtube and disable it, before the install prompt comes (if you do it too early, there might be an error. Retry). When the install promp comes, you click install (and you might need to allow it in the settings). Voila, you have Revanced installed.
I think you should just share the apk because those steps are only for tech savy people. Way easier, download and install: https://github.com/j-hc/revanced-magisk-module/releases/download/20220868/youtube-revanced-v18.16.37-all.apk
its not the supported way of doing it, and revanced doesnt release apks and therefore the apk you provided its not safe to use, even if there is nothing malicious in this apk you are never sure of that, so its better to just make the app with the manager yourself and btw its not that hard to do
there is a replacement called revanced, here is their github page.
You will have to compile the youtube app yourself, their revanced manager will help you with that.
And you have to download the latest supported version that is 18.19.35 from apk mirror.
If you need any more help feel free to ask me :)
Just did it, and it worked! Bit of a trick but wasn't as hard as I anticipated so that's awesome
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What's your smart TV? I've jailbroken my LG C1 and I have YouTube without ads, and better yet, SponsorBlock built in so I don't get even the ads being read by the YouTubers themselves.
If they start inserting ads in videos I’m watching even though I literally pay them not to, I’ll be more than just mildly infuriated.
Do you have a Chromecast? Install "smarttube" instead. It strips out all ads, and even has sponsor block built in so it skips sponsor stuff in video.
Can’t believe I hadn’t heard of this. Would always cast from my ad-blocked PC. But now I can use this - Thanks!
I don't know, I use uBlock Origin for Chrome (not sure if there are equivalents for other browsers) and I never see adds from my desktop, with a free account.
It does not scrap out sponsor babble but it definitely blocks youtube adds.
Pretty sure OP and others above are talking about from smart enabled media devices like Amazon firestick or google's equivalent chromecast, a hardware device you plugin to your tv, not the chromecast capability.
OK I must admit I'm very old in Internet time and I didn't get that they were not talking about a simple navigator on desktop. I do have a smart vaccum cleaner robot which is not a roomba, although I managed to connect it to my wifi and I can control it from an app on my smartphone. Just trying to keep up.
Thanks for this comment. I just set this up on my Chromecast HD and it works incredibly well. I may just cancel YouTube premium now!
Pretty typical for YouTube honestly, they'd try and justify it as saying it's not an "as" it's an "experience highlight" or something.
And this is why I just use an ad free YouTube client, literally provides better features for free
Edit: I should have clarified, I meant an app for Android phones/tablets.
Question, finally asked: Where do you get an ad free youtube client these days? Surely, posting a direct link here on Lemmy is not against rules?
I'd been using Revanced for quite a while, but then it eventually got caught up with and it stopped working. There was some hullabaloo about "fake" Revanced clones, and now I hear it's transformed into a "patcher". Only, on my phone I get a warning saying the patching may not work due to my processor or kernel or such -- and lo, it does not, the patching throws an exception late-ish in the process and I'm left with an unpatched youtube app.
I use revanced without issues. But good to know about alternatives for when the day eventually comes...
Yes but from where do you obtain a version of Revanced that still works on current YouTube? That was my question.