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[Jsisto]

Fuck that. To keep up with rising content costs? Well maybe there's just way too much god damn content and most of it sucks ass. You're paying for an increased amount of content, most if it that you won't watch anyway, because as mentioned, it sucks. You're paying for more and more pointless content that these companies feel they need to pay for to have a competitive advantage and they're passing on their poor investment to you. Either that or simple price gouging. Best to just opt out of most of these subscription services entirely if you don't feel you're getting a good value. Its the only way theyre course correct.

I have youtube premium which for what I get out of it, is incredibly reasonable at I think....15 a month? Youtube TV just seems like another overpriced cable company alternative. Useless.

 

[winjer]

Damn any good alternatives for ios that doesn’t require a web browser?

I don't know for iOS, but for Android, Youtube Revanced works wonders.
Not only it block ads, but it also has a ton of functionalities, tweaks and customizations.
In comparison, the youtube app, feels very dated, slow and annoying.

 

[Fahdis]

I have a streaming service in South Asia that works anywhere in the world actually for $20 that has almost all the large subs and their content combined. One login for them all. If there isn't something I want to watch and is released, I request it and they add it to their private server within 72 Hours with 4K HDR Subtitles and all on Plex or Emby. Guess I lucked out.

 

[Mattyp]

I'm honestly baffled by the amount of friends in my age or in their 20's that have never used an adblocker or barely even know they exist. I wonder how big of a percentage of internet users that use them.

The vast majority of YouTube content is now consumed via TV or mobile. Adblocking on pc? Fine.

Being fucked to do it on a tv and continually update shit third party apps no thanks, 15 minutes of work a month and the service is paid for. The older you get the more this expensive is a $0 cost compared to when I was younger and bending over backwards for hours to stream
Illegal football games.

 

[Drew1440]

Looks like they've hiked up the price of the Premium (Ad-free tier) and their TV service (OTT Cable tv, like Sling or Fubo, cable channels) At that point you might as well switch to another TV provider, or just go back to cable. Xumo is supposed to be pretty good if your provider offers it, I can't imaging choosing Google to provide my TV.

 

[Spyxos]

Bit offtopic, but my chrome browser got slower and slower until it felt like 1999 even though my windows is on an nvme drive(Supposedly because of adblocker). Switched to Firefox and it is like day and night.

 

[Trilobit]

The vast majority of YouTube content is now consumed via TV or mobile. Adblocking on pc? Fine.

Being fucked to do it on a tv and continually update shit third party apps no thanks, 15 minutes of work a month and the service is paid for. The older you get the more this expensive is a $0 cost compared to when I was younger and bending over backwards for hours to stream
Illegal football games.

Mobile is no problem, but yeah telly is a different story. My last straw was though when they completely removed Premium Lite. On principle I won't ever pay them again,

 

[Goalus]

The vast majority of YouTube content is now consumed via TV or mobile. Adblocking on pc? Fine.

Being fucked to do it on a tv and continually update shit third party apps no thanks, 15 minutes of work a month and the service is paid for. The older you get the more this expensive is a $0 cost compared to when I was younger and bending over backwards for hours to stream
Illegal football games.

You simply have to connect your PC to the TV.
It's what I did when longer and more frequent ad breaks were introduced about two (or three?) years ago. Yes, Google motivated me to do this. It's connected wirelessly, and it's a slick Surface Book, so it's not like I have a PC tower and a lot of additional cables in my living-room.

 

[Mattyp]

You simply have to connect your PC to the TV.
It's what I did when longer and more frequent ad breaks were introduced about two (or three?) years ago. Yes, Google motivated me to do this. It's connected wirelessly, and it's a slick Surface Book, so it's not like I have a PC tower and a lot of additional cables in my living-room.

I can only assume you don’t have kids and a misses lol, I was all for it when I was younger and it was just me.

And this is coming from someone with a 140tb plex server…

 

[Cyberpunkd]

YouTube makes it so easy for me to watch it less, GG. Same as with Netflix, and other streaming services.

 

[Bojji]

I don't know for iOS, but for Android, Youtube Revanced works wonders.
Not only it block ads, but it also has a ton of functionalities, tweaks and customizations.
In comparison, the youtube app, feels very dated, slow and annoying.

I had big problems with revanced.

What works for me: Brave - no ads and no problems.

 

[DeepEnigma]

I had big problems with revanced.

What works for me: Brave - no ads and no problems.

Yep. Brave and Firefox Focus both work without ads on iOS.

 

[winjer]

I had big problems with revanced.

What works for me: Brave - no ads and no problems.

Did you use the recommended version?
Using an youtube base version that is newer, usually results in problems.

 

[Bojji]

Did you use the recommended version?
Using an youtube base version that is newer, usually results in problems.

I tried both standard and "pro" versions, both had different problems. This was more than 6 months ago so maybe it's all fixed now.

 

[winjer]

I tried both standard and "pro" versions, both had different problems. This was more than 6 months ago so maybe it's all fixed now.

It's not that.
It's the version. For example, Revanced, right now, recommends 19.46.42
But the official youtube is already at 19.50.36
So you have to use the proper apk version. Not the most up to date.