This is just a reminder, if you think some subscription from a gigacorp is a good deal. It even might be, for a while. Then the price will go up and up once people get used to the idea.
It’s one of the problems of subscription services in general.
Yes, I know. Raising prices is and has always been a normal part of life. The thing is, the more services are subscription-based, the more these price hikes can be bothersome.
If the cost of toilet paper goes up more than you find comfortable, you can at least to try to budget it better and use less of it. Maybe you can stockpile it or borrow some. If it were a subscription toilet paper, you either have it or don’t have it. Or maybe you’ll get paper that prints ads onto your…
I’m getting silly. You get my point. Subscriptions can make sense, but also be a major trap.
Looking forward to all the comments explaining how YouTube is different from toilet paper. Thanks in advance for the lessons!
I try and convince my friends all the time that yt premium is not worth the money and a scam. They dont listen its “just too convenient”. Like using an adblock or 3rd party apps is difficult?
If someone can point me towards a tutorial on blocking YT ads on both Roku & Android TV I’ll cancel my Premium subscription as soon as I see it working.
On Android TV you can just use NewPipe, SmartTube, SkyTube… With some apps you can use your account and subscriptions directly.
Or YT (re)vanced I guess
This is what I did on my Chromecast TV. I actually installed SmartTube and then used another app with special permissions to override the YouTube button on the little remote it came with to launch SmartTube instead. I also swapped the Netflix button to go to my personal server of content.
Now that’s a solid suggestion!! I’ve had NewPipe on my phone forever–it never occurred to me that it might work on my Shield Pro! 🤦♂️ 👍
If I invested in a lesser Android TV for the bedroom (there’s a Roku in there) and cancelled the subscription–it would pay for itself (eventually)?
zoot’s suggestion is probably the simplest, but if you’re feeling adventurous you could get a raspberry pi and setup a pi-hole server to intercept your internet traffic and redirect ad requests to a null domain
When I first got the Roku, I had a “Oh, HELL NO!” moment when I saw that the Youtube app delivered fresh, sticky ads to my eyeballs–for which I have zero tolerance on all my devices.
A little research resulted, and I ordered a Pi 4. A couple of days later, after it was set up, I realized that PiHole (and later, AdGuard Home) would NOT filter out Youtube ads (although they work quite well for OTHER ad-filtering).
Shortly after that, Youtube offered me a free, 3-mo subscription, upon which I bit.
$11.99 felt steep to me, but I begrudgingly complied. At $13.99? That might be a deal-breaker.
I’m suprised people pay for youtube premium instead of just downloading UBlockOrigin
Edit: I’m really sorry I just noticed that you posted this MONTHS ago. I’m an idiot
A lot of people watch videos on their phones, and ad-blocking is a lot more of a pain there. The official YouTube app is pretty much the only app on iOS that I know of and no ad-blocker works for that, I don’t think - though a good ad-blocker and Safari works quite well to watch YouTube on iPhone.
No real options on Apple TV though, that I know of.
uyou+extra is a custom youtube app for ios, so ios users can use that. It isn’t on the app store so you gotta sideload it via developer mode and a signing app.
The real issue here is that we as a society have poured countless hours of information into a repository owned by a for profit venture, and that repository loses money.
I haven’t gotten any notifications about this and when I go into my account it still says my next payment is the same. Edit: God dammit just got it
