YouTube launches a $7.99 per month, ad-free Premium Lite subscription
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I heard people still get ads even on full price
Nope. Unless you're talking about sponsors that content creators hock.
The app allows you to skip to commonly skipped-to-areas, which often makes skipping that kind of content very quick and simple. I'm not sure if that's a a feature of the free version though
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I heard people still get ads even on full price
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Somebody didn't read the article! It's only Music videos that will have ads. It seems the cost savings here are all from cutting out record label contracts
They also appear on the main screen, as you're browsing and on shorts
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Considering i get premium Peacock for like $6 a month after discounts I agree. I get the live channel plus a ton of other stuff and other pre-made channels to watch. Some sports as well plus the Olympics when they are relevant. Asking $8 just to remove some ads sounds awful. I will stick to using Firefox on mobile and pc with ublock origin which removes all ads.
I feel the same. I pay $5/month for my Nebula subscription, and I think that's a bit high for my usage.
Could I get an ala carte option where my first X hours are ad free? I don't watch a ton of YouTube, but I'm willing to pay a little to support the platform.
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Too little too late, I wish there was a non-US alternative to YouTube.
Nebula is US based, but it's quite different and has some overlap with some popular YouTube channels. $6/month or $60/year, and you can find discounts through various YouTube channel referral codes
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I don't get the people shitting on this. It's a very fair plan. Something I've been wishing existed for the past month, even. Like the article states, it's for people who use YT to watch TV (me).
I just hope there's a yearly plan to get a little bit more of a discount. Student plan is the same price but no yearly plan, so it comes to ~$90 per year.
Smart tube
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I don't get the people shitting on this. It's a very fair plan. Something I've been wishing existed for the past month, even. Like the article states, it's for people who use YT to watch TV (me).
I just hope there's a yearly plan to get a little bit more of a discount. Student plan is the same price but no yearly plan, so it comes to ~$90 per year.
I don't like that a paid plan gives worse experience than free tools. For example, the downloads not being files you can store indefinitely and play by anything. Or not all ads being guaranteed to be blocked.
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how is a music video a commercial?
It's advertising for the record label and the artist.
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Freetube (desktop) and newpipe (android) is great for those who would like a subscription feed without an account, local Playlist, download videos, and save view history while remaining account free.
I use pipepipe on mobile with it being a fork of newpipe with sponsor block, and lets you use a throw away YouTube account it uses only to access age restricted videos.
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Smart tube
Yep. Smart tube on the TV, Firefox + ubo on phone and laptop.
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Yep. Smart tube on the TV, Firefox + ubo on phone and laptop.
I'm using revanced on my phone
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Unfortunately Chrome just rendered uBlock Origin useless, and borderline demands you remove it from your browser. I can confirm that mine stopped working yesterday
And now you switch to Firefox. The better browser for years at this point.
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Freetube (desktop) and newpipe (android) is great for those who would like a subscription feed without an account, local Playlist, download videos, and save view history while remaining account free.
I use pipepipe on mobile with it being a fork of newpipe with sponsor block, and lets you use a throw away YouTube account it uses only to access age restricted videos.
FreeTube is great, but I wish there was a non-Chromium based alternative.
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As an entry-level subscription, the new tier won’t offer several benefits in the full YouTube Premium ($13.99 per month) subscription, like downloads, background play, or the ability to watch music videos ad-free.
I wonder how much electricity is wasted on this alone. Probably so many people leaving their screens powered on just to continue listening to something without it stopping.
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As an entry-level subscription, the new tier won’t offer several benefits in the full YouTube Premium ($13.99 per month) subscription, like downloads, background play, or the ability to watch music videos ad-free.
I wonder how much electricity is wasted on this alone. Probably so many people leaving their screens powered on just to continue listening to something without it stopping.
It literally costs them money to make YouTube worse so that you can pay them to make it better again. NewPipe go brrrrrr
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I did read the article. Music videos on YouTube are YouTube videos. Adding ads to them doesn't magically make them something else.
What they're really saying is "oh, well, we want you to get used to the subscription model having ads on some things, because we plan to expand it massively in the future."
We’re arguing about whether music videos are videos and therefore there will be ads on videos... Here’s what the article says. Pretty straightforward.
With YouTube Lite, customers will be able to watch videos across verticals like gaming, fashion, beauty, cooking, news, and more, ad-free, but will be shown ads on music content and music videos.
My YT usage includes exactly zero anything related to music, so this seems relevant for me.
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