wow just wow while i can't say i didn't see this one coming but it always amazes me where greed could lead someone
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To everyone who is saying they use adblock and haven't seen this yet: YouTube probably rolled this out to a smaller percentage of users first. It allows them to understand how this change impacts user behaviour, e.g. how many users comply and disable their adblocker, how many more users close YouTube than usual etc. Most tech companies do this type of analysis before releasing a high impact change to all users.
I do close youtbe much quicker than I used to. I can watch one video and rhan I'm done. The next video starts with a full minte of ads and I'm out. I know there's stuff like ReVanced, but I keep wondering wether it's all worth it.
You'll hear this over and over again but that's because it's true: Revanced is absolutely worth it. Not difficult to set up and the experience is life changing once you see YouTube without ads
Odysee is a great, decentralised alternative if you are looking to jump ship.
If you do end up sticking with youtube, ReVanced is good. Smart Tube Next is good for TVs, and firefox + ublock origin on desktop.
I have a premium subscription, but it logs you out. And then I see ads until I log in again and reload the page. I pay these people. I should never ever see an ad. And it's enough that I've noticed the ads are more obnoxious than they used to be. I'm about done with it.
ReVanced took 20 minutes to setup, and most of that was me downloading the wrong APK version to patch initially.
It was harder for me to find out how to set it as the default app than it was to patch the ads out of it.
For iOS users Vinegar is a nice add-on for Safari that strips out all the ads etc.