Support NeoGAF

[keraj37]

This is the popup I got today on youtube.
I will not pay premium, and I will not be forced to watch adds, so good bye youtube, was good knowing you!

EDIT:
new thing out of the bush

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

Damn. YouTube is huge…

 

[Giallo Corsa]

Listen, I understand that they have to make money but throwing 3 ads before a video starts and 2-3 others in the middle of the video is not the answer since it renders the whole experience insufferable.

I literally can't watch YT on my LG TV 'cause of that.

 

[LordCBH]

I was watching videos last night and got ad breaks every 90 seconds….its become fucking absurd…..

 

[winjer]

I'm using UBlock here and it still works as intended. No ads at all.

 

[ClanOfNone]

I paid for the premium because 98% of the video content I watch comes from there. Only reason I hang on to Netflix is for the kids.
I think I've had premium for about 2 years, I can only imagine how much worse the ads are now, they were already insufferable back then.

I feel like I get my money's worth out of it, besides the kids I hadn't used any of my streaming services in forever. I was paying like $50 a month for service nobody was using.

lol, the first thing my teenage daughter did when she started working was get herself youtube premium.

 

[Trunx81]

I paid for the premium because 98% of the video content I watch comes from there. Only reason I hang on to Netflix is for the kids.
I think I've had premium for about 2 years, I can only imagine how much worse the ads are now, they were already insufferable back then.

I feel like I get my money's worth out of it, besides the kids I hadn't used any of my streaming services in forever. I was paying like $50 a month for service nobody was using.

lol, the first thing my teenage daughter did when she started working was get herself youtube premium.

Same. And if you book Premium in another country, like India, it’s a lot cheaper. My daughter loves her YT-Videos and some adds definitely don’t target minors ..

 

[HoodWinked]

Makes sense they pretty much hit maximum saturation not sure how much larger they can grow thier audience so now they have to grow revenue per user.

Also are you guys deliberately calling them adds? It's ads like advertisements.

 

[Kilau]

I'd rather give money directly to the creators I like on patreon than give it to Google.

 

[mortal]

YouTube Premium is the only streaming subscription I pay for atm. I use it for tutorials, for news, and entertainment.
I hate that they've recently raised the price, but the background play feature and not having to deal with constant ads are worth it for me, at least for the time being.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

This only happens if your ad blocker sucks btw

uBlock Origin was quickly updated to bypass this guard puppy

 

[OmegaSupreme]

YouTube Premium is the only streaming subscription I pay for atm. I use it for tutorials, for news, and entertainment.
I hate that they've recently raised the price, but the background play feature and not having to deal with constant ads are worth it for me, at least for the time being.

Same. I especially hate all of the political ads around elections seasons. So, I'll pay the13 bucks or whatever it is not to see them.

 

[Vicetrailia]

YouTube is trash.

Their business model is to show people so many ads to force subscription to a service that’ll be $60 a month for a family one day.

Their entire company is trash because all they do is make things worse by strongarming and exploiting everyone and everything. It’s like they are massive pegging rapists or something.

 

[keraj37]

I'm using UBlock here and it still works as intended. No ads at all.

This only happens if your ad blocker sucks btw

uBlock Origin was quickly updated to bypass this guard puppy

Good to know, I will try that ublock, thanks

 

[DGrayson]

Its just such a slippery slope with these fuckers.

If they said "oh ya pay X per month to remove ads". I may consider it. But as more and more people sign up then, surprise, now they will raise the price to X+3 or whatever. So I prefer not even to start with that shit. SmartTubeNext for the NVIDIA Shield on my TV and Adblock Plus on my computers.

 

[AJUMP23]

Will a pihoe work instead of an Adbloc?

 

[justonething]

It's pretty hilarious to hear in this thread people are actually paying for youtube. Any creator worth their shit has several other means of monetization. NO ONE should rely on youtube's drip fed ad revenue. They can and do pull the revenue plug whenever they feel uncomfortable with you. Ad rev should be seen as just a small bonus. Don't pay greedy youtube middleman, support the creators directly and continue blocking those ads.

 

[DaleinCalgary]

Youtube premium is the only subscription I have that I say is worth the money.

 

[winjer]

Google and Youtube already make billions by stealing user metadata and selling it to anyone they can.
This is something that even Google has acknowledged, that users don't pay for their services with money, but with their privacy and data.
So charging this fee, is just double dipping.

 

[Vicetrailia]

Google is ad-drowning non-paid users to get them to pay. Like hell I will help them achieve that.

 

[Sony]

so good bye youtube, was good knowing you!

 

[winjer]

And the worst part is that Google has little to no curation for their ads.
Just recently there were several cases of ads served by Google, on their search engine, were actual malware links.
Hackers were able to just buy ad space on Google, that directed users to viruses.

It's so bad, that even the FBI and other international agencies, recommend users to use adblockers as a safety measure.

 

[DetectiveBananas]

AdGuard still works great for me on phone, tablet, and laptop. YouTube without it is insufferable. I would barely watch it otherwise.

 

[Fake]

Still using here. Youtube can fuck himself.

 

[Kacho]

Youtube premium is the only subscription I have that I say is worth the money.

Yep. If you use YouTube constantly it's a no brainer.

 

[keraj37]

Well, if I cannot go around that issue without paying for premium, I will stick to odysee, rumble etc, I cannot stand ads, no matter how good content there is going to be on yt.

 

[MidGenRefresh]

I'm paying for YouTube premium and it's my only non-stop active subscription service. It offers endless entertainment and on top of that YouTube Music. For me it's a no-brainer.

 

[Rayderism]

Hmm....so far, Ad Block Plus through Firefox is still working on YT. At least it is for me.

 

[Paltheos]

Despite all the gloom and doom around this subject I've had no problems on youtube when viewing on Firefox.
Twitch on the other hand is a problem unless I'm subbed to a particular streamer (so... 1 at the moment), as my browser hiccups on twitch's ad banner telling me that an ad is playing for the next 30 seconds, which itself usually freezes in place. Obviously they want me to sub or turn off my blocker but really all it's done is disincentivize me from trying out new channels.

 

[LordOfChaos]

Game over if they block adblockers. And sponsorblock, also indispensable. I hope they can work around it.

Seems like we're just going to get funneled into Premium otherwise because the amount of ads has become insufferable.

 

[Trogdor1123]

How does pihole work? Would it stop this? I think it might be time to try it

 

[NoLootBoxDev]

I remember some years back an ad that lasted for 1 hour...

 

[DrFigs]

The Brave browser does a good job at blocking youtube ads. not sure how long this will last.

 

[The Stig]

i got the popup yesterday but it looks like whatever blocker im using has adapted.

panic over

 

[DragoonKain]

This is the trend in tech for virtually every platform or service.

1. Start by offering a service that is free for everyone and works great.

2. Once it becomes popular, start either removing those features and hiding them behind a pay only version or make the experience absolutely insufferable and tell consumers if they want it to be good again, you need to pay.

3. Once people start paying just to stop the annoyances, gradually increase the price every so often to where eventually you realize you're now paying close to double for something you originally didn't pay anything at all for.

It's the dirtiest tactic going. I'd pay for YT if they offered something great. Like free movies with YT Premium. Or free TV series with Premium. But you're essentially paying a monthly fee to stop ads and download videos to watch offline.

 

[willothedog]

The next step will be to start embedding ads directly into the stream so they cannot be skipped.

 

[GymWolf]

I would be perfectly ok with any ads before or during a video if the censorship wasn't so fucking shit and didn't made everything so sanitized.

I swear people are afraid of everything to not get demonitized, and sometimes they still get fucked anyway.

Cursing
Saying words like suicide or other "offensive" words
Showing guns or blood or talking about violence
You can't say that a chick is fucking ugly or a dude act too gayish
So much else


But hey, you can find a lot of video of 2 dudes literally buttfucking each others...

Yt turned into an absolute turd and they are still relevant because lazy fucks like me can't find alternative or even looked for it.

 

[Vicetrailia]

I would be perfectly ok with any ads before or during a video if the censorship wasn't so fucking shit and didn't made everything so sanitized.

I swear people are afraid of everything to not get demonitized, and sometimes they still get fucked anyway.

Cursing
Saying words like suicide or other "offensive" words
Showing guns or blood or talking about violence
You can't say that a chick is fucking ugly or a dude act too gayish
So much else


But hey, you can find a lot of video of 2 dudes literally buttfucking each others...

Yt turned into an absolute turd and they are still relevant because lazy fucks like me can't find alternative or even looked for it.

What alternative is there?

 

[AlteredForms]

and I will not be forced to watch adds, so good bye youtube, was good knowing you!

 

[TransTrender]

No ads here with FF

 

[Whitecrow]

I spend half my life on youtube. Deserve some of my cents.
Well. I didnt pay premium until I needed it running in the background on my phone.

 

[Mistake]

Its just such a slippery slope with these fuckers.

If they said "oh ya pay X per month to remove ads". I may consider it. But as more and more people sign up then, surprise, now they will raise the price to X+3 or whatever. So I prefer not even to start with that shit. SmartTubeNext for the NVIDIA Shield on my TV and Adblock Plus on my computers.

Not only that, but you get a worse experience than if you pirate or do things yourself. I recently read an issue where YT premium needs you to connect to the internet to play offline content. It's ridiculous. I just use brave and save videos for later instead

 

[West Texas CEO]

i came here for adblock suggestions and leave satisfied.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Switched over to ublock origin and it's gone for me now. Thanks

 

[thegame983]

Imagine tollarating ads.

 

[Dural]

I paid for the premium because 98% of the video content I watch comes from there. Only reason I hang on to Netflix is for the kids.
I think I've had premium for about 2 years, I can only imagine how much worse the ads are now, they were already insufferable back then.

I feel like I get my money's worth out of it, besides the kids I hadn't used any of my streaming services in forever. I was paying like $50 a month for service nobody was using.

lol, the first thing my teenage daughter did when she started working was get herself youtube premium.

Yep, I've had family premium for 5+ years now and there's no way I'd ever go back. All my kids and my wife each have their own accounts so I don't have to have their crap screwing up my recommended list. Plus Youtube Music is pretty great, me and my wife both use it in the car rather than paying for SiriusXM. I also have sponsorblockcast running on my home server to auto skip the in video sponsors.

 

[Hudo]

Luckily, I have yet to experience Youtube blocking me because of my adblocker. If that really starts to happen, I'll probably watch fewer videos (or another technical solution will emerge to circumvent adblock-blocking). I will certainly not subject myself to an adblocker-free Youtube experience because it's fucking shit. You've got multple ads at the start of the video and then regularly inbetween. It's so aggressive and annoying that I'd rather not watch anything if there's no way to block that shit.

 

[NeoGiffer]

This only happens if your ad blocker sucks btw

uBlock Origin was quickly updated to bypass this guard puppy

 

[newtypepilot]

I'm more surprised that people don't use ublock as their adblocker lol

 

[Susurrus]

I always find it funny when people think that a business cares when someone that isn't providing a source of revenue (via ads/payment) stops using their service. You really think they care if freeloaders don't use their service?

This is the same people that "boycott" websites because they won't let you visit them without adblocker or people that "boycott" Netflix because they don't get to use their buddy's password. You are not a revenue stream for them, they are not going to miss you.