ad blocker no longer works with youtube?

[donkmeister]

Funk said:

ecsrobin said:

Funk said:

The ridiculous thing is that YT's solution to adblocking is.....LOADS more ads which only makes it worse for those not ad-blocking or trying to support creators of certain channels by letting ads roll. Those people end up frustrated and eventually seeking out adblocking options.

The issue is probably the premium pricing. I pay £2.50 a month for premium and it’s worth every £. In the UK it’s £12 a month it’s too much so forces people to use adblocking.

I know some people will always refuse to pay anything but I suspect a large number of people if it was under £5pm would stump up.

I concur. There's no good reason it should be 5x the cost in one country vs another. Also £12 on isolation may not sound much but when you add that to the 'monthly' for Spotify/Amazon Prime/Netflix/Disney+/HBO/Paramount/blah blah blah then before you know it you're paying £100-150/mo on various subscriptions.

Indeed; a Man I Know has been hot on paying his dues for music, movies, software and so on for his entire adult life. But, when he had Netflix, Prime, D+ (as well as BBC!) then Paramount decided to snaffle back all their licenced media, he said eff it and started downloading stuff that the three main players weren't licencing. Paramount, Apple and probably a few others won't see a penny from him for their efforts because they got greedy. It has become ridiculous.

I don't have YT premium. Every now and then I look into it. I'd certainly be happy with a few quid a month, but not what they want to charge. I recently tried the "Turkish account" workaround but they appear to have plugged that hole so... still getting zero from me (plus whatever revenue they get when someone skips ads at the earliest opportunity).

[Derek Smith]

Brave, Private Window.

My experience is that YouTube can't be bothered to restrict use of their feed to ad free.

I was told via email. Honest.

[NDA]

I have been clearing my history and not signing in to YT - no ads. I know what I want to watch, so just search for it rather than see my usual subscriptions. Clunky, but better than the ads.

[Armitage.Shanks]

I use SmartTube on Firestick that seems to block out all unnecessary content when I want to watch YT via the TV. It's a decent enough platform but not quite as intuitive as YT.

As said above, I'd be happy to pay a nominal fee like £2.50 to subscribe to YT Premium so why we have to pay more in the UK than another country is ludicrous.

[Far Cough]

Armitage.Shanks said:

I use SmartTube on Firestick that seems to block out all unnecessary content when I want to watch YT via the TV. It's a decent enough platform but not quite as intuitive as YT.

As said above, I'd be happy to pay a nominal fee like £2.50 to subscribe to YT Premium so why we have to pay more in the UK than another country is ludicrous.

Load up the YT app on phone and then cast to Smart Tube which is on the TV........ Like using your phone as the remote control if you like. I can confirm the latest YT changes have had zero effect and all adverts and sponsored content is skipped effortlessly...

[Stan the Bat]

Smart tube is great.

[TameRacingDriver]

Far Cough said:

Load up the YT app on phone and then cast to Smart Tube which is on the TV........ Like using your phone as the remote control if you like. I can confirm the latest YT changes have had zero effect and all adverts and sponsored content is skipped effortlessly...

How do you do that? I've been using smarttube for ages and I always just use the firestick remote to control it. I don't have any options to cast to smarttube directly.

[eltax91]

FreeTube

[Corso Marche]

TameRacingDriver said:

How do you do that? I've been using smarttube for ages and I always just use the firestick remote to control it. I don't have any options to cast to smarttube directly.

Firestick doesn't directly support the Cast protocol, so apps have to support it directly themselves.

It's a while since I used SmartTube, but it may not directly support the Cast protocol on the Fire OS version of the app.

[TameRacingDriver]

Corso Marche said:

Firestick doesn't directly support the Cast protocol, so apps have to support it directly themselves.

It's a while since I used SmartTube, but it may not directly support the Cast protocol on the Fire OS version of the app.

Fair enough, it's not a bother to carry on as I am, just wondered if there was an easier way

[Far Cough]

TameRacingDriver said:

How do you do that? I've been using smarttube for ages and I always just use the firestick remote to control it. I don't have any options to cast to smarttube directly.

I`ve installed Smart Tube directly to the TV rather than on a USB plug in and when I select cast on the phone the TV Smart tube App shows up which you simply select

[scjgreen]

Armitage.Shanks said:

I use SmartTube on Firestick that seems to block out all unnecessary content when I want to watch YT via the TV. It's a decent enough platform but not quite as intuitive as YT.

As said above, I'd be happy to pay a nominal fee like £2.50 to subscribe to YT Premium so why we have to pay more in the UK than another country is ludicrous.

Get an account in a country thats cheaper then, absolutely nothing stopping you!



1569 Argentinean Pesos or about £1.54

[donkmeister]

scjgreen said:

Armitage.Shanks said:

I use SmartTube on Firestick that seems to block out all unnecessary content when I want to watch YT via the TV. It's a decent enough platform but not quite as intuitive as YT.

As said above, I'd be happy to pay a nominal fee like £2.50 to subscribe to YT Premium so why we have to pay more in the UK than another country is ludicrous.

Get an account in a country thats cheaper then, absolutely nothing stopping you!



1569 Argentinean Pesos or about £1.54

It will be interesting if that pending renewal works... They've been plugging this gap pretty effectively for at least some of the countries associated with this ahem workaround. I'm sure I read that for Argentina in particular you need some sort of Argentinian government-issued ID now too.

[Condi]

Its a bit like the F1 stream. Sky have the sole rights in the UK, and charge about £40 a month for it. F1 TV works elsewhere in the world for about £8/m, but you need a credit or debit card issued in the country you're buying in to pay for it, so unless you know someone in that country who can pay for it on your behalf it doesnt work.

[OutInTheShed]

I find that if I google say 'youtube deep purple perfect strangers' it lets me in with an adblocker on Firefox, for about 5 songs.
A few things with direct links to a youtube video also still seem to work.

I really am not putting up with any ads. I am not minded to pay youtube any money.
I am making the effort to rip the rest of my CDs and listen to those, and resolving to buy a few more CDs,

Youtube on our telly is unusable now, it puts advert breaks in the middle of song tracks.

The whole youtube thing gets on my tits these days, it's like nobody can communicate a simple piece of information on the net, they want you to sit in front of them waffling for 10 minutes. Google seems to prioritise Youtube as the answer to every search.

I'm not even consoled by the fact that I own some of their shares.

[scjgreen]

donkmeister said:

It will be interesting if that pending renewal works... They've been plugging this gap pretty effectively for at least some of the countries associated with this ahem workaround. I'm sure I read that for Argentina in particular you need some sort of Argentinian government-issued ID now too.

It's been renewing fine every month for about the last 18 Months

[scjgreen]

Condi said:

Its a bit like the F1 stream. Sky have the sole rights in the UK, and charge about £40 a month for it. F1 TV works elsewhere in the world for about £8/m, but you need a credit or debit card issued in the country you're buying in to pay for it, so unless you know someone in that country who can pay for it on your behalf it doesnt work.

Working fine using my UK Chase Bank Card

[tim0409]

scjgreen said:

donkmeister said:

It will be interesting if that pending renewal works... They've been plugging this gap pretty effectively for at least some of the countries associated with this ahem workaround. I'm sure I read that for Argentina in particular you need some sort of Argentinian government-issued ID now too.

It's been renewing fine every month for about the last 18 Months

Same here, and I was worried about my credit card updating when it expired but didn’t have an issue.

[trackdemon]

Have switched to brave browser and it's a revelation being able to watch stuff without being forcefed rubbish ads I have no interest in - if anything they sometime made me kill the tab. They even interrupt live streaming stuff like radio shows, typically just when something of interest is being discussed. Nonsense.

[Teppic]

Condi said:

Its a bit like the F1 stream. Sky have the sole rights in the UK, and charge about £40 a month for it. F1 TV works elsewhere in the world for about £8/m, but you need a credit or debit card issued in the country you're buying in to pay for it, so unless you know someone in that country who can pay for it on your behalf it doesnt work.

Nope. A VPN set to a country that can receive the full streaming F1TV Pro and a tablet or phone to use the F1TV app (don't try to pay via the F1 website, because that will ask for a card number and if you use a UK card then you'll only get access to the F1 archive and documentaries, and no streaming of live races). Then use Apple / Google Pay (or equivalent) to complete the transaction as that doesn't require you to submit your card details.