I really thought they would wait a little longer after the Adblock crackdown. Oh well, Grayjay to the rescue!
this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2023
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Of all the streaming platforms I'll never pay for, YouTube is the one I'll never pay for the most.
I'm right there with you all the way. My wallet will never have a Google hole. Not for YouTube premium or music or storage or whatever else they are thinking of selling me that is not a physical product. I probably won't buy anything physical from them either such as a Chromebook or a pixel phone because they are the most evil company in the world today.
There's plenty of competirion for the most evil, but Google has certainly proven not to be trustworthy.
i pay my subscription in Argentine dollars 😁
seems turkey is the cheapest now, but a little hesitant to cancel and try to resubscribe from there in case it doesn't work..
you know what, i'm just gonna cancel the whole thing.
hope this was worth it for them.
Good luck. It’s been three days for me and it’s insufferable using it with ads. I’m not even actively looking through the app, just coming across videos for work and personal projects and I’m already fed up.
i'll setup vanced and try my luck with adblockers.
I don't mind tinkering with it to get it working.
If you're on mobile, try Newpipe. Been using it for years now without much issue.
For the above just Firefox via PC/MAC; But for normal content I was using AppleTV so a lot tougher.
I just use Firefox with uBlock Origin on mobile. Works great.
I know it's maybe not a great replacement for everyone, but this crap is why I stopped using YouTube and just use Peertube now.
Another nice Desktop client (FOSS), which works very well, no ads and not only for YT
MotionBox accesses and aggregates videos via the VBML language.
It supports DuckDuckGo, BitTorrent, TMDB, Youtube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, Twitch, TikTok, Facebook, Odysee, PeerTube, Last.fm and SoundCloud.
All of this inside multiple tabs and without ever showing an ad.
YT without ads also in the Vivaldi Feed Reader