ForgedReality wrote on Nov 9, 2024, 02:13:

Cutter wrote on Nov 8, 2024, 19:57:
Skip the outrage and just cancel your sub. Problem solved. Ublock Origin = problem really solved. When I watch YT in bed where my TV doesn't have a browser and UO I just skip videos that have a lot of ads. And when they start if they're more than 5s I either skip it or cancel it and reload it a few times until they either launch the video or just use a 5s ad. Most of the videos I just want to skim through initially to see if they're worth watching in the first place. The only reason these services got big was they were a decent and affordable alternative to cable TV. Well, if that's no longer the case people will just go back to cable or stick with even more alt streaming services. I've found a few channels through Roku that show tons of old TV shows and movies in good quality that are almost entirely ad free. There's no shortage of these things out there.

Replace your TV app with SmartTube. It even integrates SponsorBlock, just like on desktop. Thank me later.

smarttube on the TV (nvidia shield) really is brilliant, the intial install is a bit hmmm (via another tool) but after that it updates itself and works briliant

Cutter wrote on Nov 8, 2024, 19:57:
Skip the outrage and just cancel your sub. Problem solved. Ublock Origin = problem really solved. When I watch YT in bed where my TV doesn't have a browser and UO I just skip videos that have a lot of ads. And when they start if they're more than 5s I either skip it or cancel it and reload it a few times until they either launch the video or just use a 5s ad. Most of the videos I just want to skim through initially to see if they're worth watching in the first place. The only reason these services got big was they were a decent and affordable alternative to cable TV. Well, if that's no longer the case people will just go back to cable or stick with even more alt streaming services. I've found a few channels through Roku that show tons of old TV shows and movies in good quality that are almost entirely ad free. There's no shortage of these things out there.

Replace your TV app with SmartTube. It even integrates SponsorBlock, just like on desktop. Thank me later.

uBlock Origin is free. There. Now you have the only reason to want to pay for Youtube, so basically, you have Premium for free.

"Others noticed that the notification came from Apple, which takes a 30% cut of all purchases, which could explain the significant hike in prices."
Weird how much reading changes things.

Skip the outrage and just cancel your sub. Problem solved. Ublock Origin = problem really solved. When I watch YT in bed where my TV doesn't have a browser and UO I just skip videos that have a lot of ads. And when they start if they're more than 5s I either skip it or cancel it and reload it a few times until they either launch the video or just use a 5s ad. Most of the videos I just want to skim through initially to see if they're worth watching in the first place. The only reason these services got big was they were a decent and affordable alternative to cable TV. Well, if that's no longer the case people will just go back to cable or stick with even more alt streaming services. I've found a few channels through Roku that show tons of old TV shows and movies in good quality that are almost entirely ad free. There's no shortage of these things out there.

(Anakin-Padme meme)

"$40 per year right?"
"Right?"

Ad blocker still free.

I used to pay for it when it was $10 and came with Google Play Music. It was a great deal, mostly for the music.

Offer a bigger discount between monthly and annual. Takes the sting out of a price increase for those that can lump sum pay.

Jesus Christ, 40$??? That's all of my monthly subscriptions and Patreons combined. O:

Who wouldn't want to pay $500 a year for YouTube.

we can file that right next to "why don't people go to the movies anymore"

This isn't surprising. They make more money selling ad space than they do from users paying them a fee to not have ads appear. Even if the users who pay can give an equivalent amount, why would google ever not make it more expensive for ad free to discourage users from getting it? An ad-lite tier is exactly what google wants, you pay and the ads pay at the same time. Not only that but the ads that will be shown on the ad-lite package will also be more expensive and more profitable to google. There is no way to win this except to completely boycott YouTube itself which I doubt people would be willing to do. So welcome to the future. Outrage will die off easily over a short period of time and even the die hard who would boycott youtube aren't going to be a significant enough number to matter.