Re: Then, once you paid for premium..
By: Nightfox to MRO on Tue Nov 11 2025 13:23:08

i think youtube has tried to get me to do a premium trial like 1000x.
some people say it's good for playing music.

I've had YouTube Premium for a little while. I do think it's good for music, though I also like to browse & watch videos on YouTube sometimes, and it's nice to not have them interrupted with ads.

Youtubes Ad frequency and length has become unbearable.
i now have ad-free youtube everywhere. Smarttube on FireTV, Revanced App Versions on Android and Brave Browser on Desktop (Linux Mint). And in case one wants to download Youtube Videos, yt-dlp on desktop or seal on android.

Mindsurfer

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Youtubes Ad frequency and length has become unbearable.

And, they can tell if you have an ad blocker installed. If they
detect that (and you're not paying at least $15 a month for the
YouTube Premium), they block your IP address.

I've noticed various browser extensions have add-ons to block
the YouTube deal, but it's frustrating having to watch an ad for
10 seconds...then not 2 minutes later, here's another ad. At least
they can't stop you from muting the audio for it.

Daryl

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Re: Then, once you paid for p
By: Daryl Stout to Mindsurfer on Thu Nov 13 2025 16:55:43

Youtubes Ad frequency and length has become unbearable.

And, they can tell if you have an ad blocker installed. If they detect that (and you're not paying at least $15 a month for the YouTube Premium), they block your IP address.

that has yet to happen to me. Blocking Youtube ads for quite a while on all devices and it is working just fine.
PS: i am on a dynamic IP (changing every 24h). but i'm not sure if they would really block IPs

Mindsurfer

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Hello Mindsurfer!

** On Wednesday 12.11.25 - 21:03, Mindsurfer wrote to Nightfox:

Youtubes Ad frequency and length has become unbearable.
i now have ad-free youtube everywhere. ...
..or seal on android.

Newpipe is excellent for android too.


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Re: Then, once you paid for p
By: Ogg to Mindsurfer on Thu Nov 13 2025 18:54:00

Youtubes Ad frequency and length has become unbearable. i now have ad-free
youtube everywhere. ... ..or seal on android.

Newpipe is excellent for android too.

Thats true. One of those apps that does not need you to login to youtube and keeps all "channel subscribtions" in a locally stoed list of channels. If you have alot of Channels you are subscribed to, it can take a while to refresh for new videos =) (it literally takes minutes to refresh 1209 channels ;) )

I have Newspipe installed, but more like a last line of defense, in case they would kill my youtube account for reasons of blocking ads or something.

Mindsurfer

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Hello Mindsurfer!

** On Friday 14.11.25 - 13:46, Mindsurfer wrote to Ogg:

..(it literally takes minutes to refresh 1209
channels ;) )

Wow.


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Re: Then, once you paid for p
By: Daryl Stout to Mindsurfer on Thu Nov 13 2025 16:55:43

And, they can tell if you have an ad blocker installed. If they
detect that (and you're not paying at least $15 a month for the
YouTube Premium), they block your IP address.

I must be flying under the radar. I've been using ad blockers for years and I've never been blocked. If an ad blocker becomes ineffective, I just switch to another that is; I've only had to do that twice over a span of 10+ years.

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Re: Then, once you paid for p
By: Ogg to Mindsurfer on Fri Nov 14 2025 18:11:00

..(it literally takes minutes to refresh 1209 channels

Wow.

That it takes minutes to refresh or because someone actually subscribes to (seriously?) that many channels?

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Re: Then, once you paid for p
By: Mortar to Daryl Stout on Sat Nov 15 2025 01:24 pm

Re: Then, once you paid for p
By: Daryl Stout to Mindsurfer on Thu Nov 13 2025 16:55:43

And, they can tell if you have an ad blocker installed. If they
detect that (and you're not paying at least $15 a month for the
YouTube Premium), they block your IP address.

I must be flying under the radar. I've been using ad blockers
for years and I've never been blocked. If an ad blocker becomes ineffective, I just switch to another that is; I've only had to do
that twice over a span of 10+ years.

youtube will not block your ip address.
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Re: Then, once you paid for p
By: Mindsurfer to Daryl Stout on Fri Nov 14 2025 12:01:00

that has yet to happen to me. Blocking Youtube ads for quite a while on all devices and it is working just fine.
PS: i am on a dynamic IP (changing every 24h). but i'm not sure if they would really block IPs

I've been meaning to try something like a VPN, but I've just never looked into it. On an unrelated note... my Adblocker works great on Tubi. I can watch Columbo ad free!!!

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Re: Then, once you paid for p
By: Mindsurfer to Daryl Stout on Fri Nov 14 2025 12:01 pm

that has yet to happen to me. Blocking Youtube ads for quite a while on all devices and it is working just fine.
PS: i am on a dynamic IP (changing every 24h). but i'm not sure if they would really block IPs

Blocking IPs in this day and age would be suicidal. Most users connect from a CG-NAT this days, this means tons of users share the same IPs. If they blocked me for using an adblocker they could be blocking 64 other users, which is not in their best interest.


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Re: Then, once you paid for p
By: Arelor to Mindsurfer on Mon Nov 17 2025 07:08:01

that has yet to happen to me. Blocking Youtube ads for quite a while on all
devices and it is working just fine.
PS: i am on a dynamic IP (changing every 24h). but i'm not sure if they
would really block IPs

Blocking IPs in this day and age would be suicidal. Most users connect from a CG-NAT this days, this means tons of users share the same IPs. If they blocked me for using an adblocker they could be blocking 64 other users, which is not in their best interest.

Thats what i thought. They would slowly kill their customer base, since IPs are not something to identify users over time.
I am not against Ads in general, but Ads can't disturb my internet experience. Remember the time when multiple browser Ad popups could appear out of nowhere? =) This is how it started. Would Ads have been presented reasonable always, we maybe would not block Ads so completely nowadays.

Mindsurfer

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Re: Re:Then, once you paid for p
By: Foriest Jan Smith to Mindsurfer on Mon Nov 17 2025 04:26:57

I can watch Columbo ad free!!!

Living the dream. :)

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Re: Then, once you paid for p
By: Mindsurfer to Arelor on Mon Nov 17 2025 03:10 pm

I am not against Ads in general, but Ads can't disturb my internet experience. Remember the time when multiple browser Ad popups could appear out of nowhere? =) This is how it started. Would Ads have been presented reasonable always, we maybe would not block Ads so completely nowadays.

I didn't use to be against advertisement. However, I am strongly against websites pushing random code into my web browser and executing it, which is precisely what most advertisements do.

You are paying for the bandwidth and computing power necessary to play the ads. Fuck them.

Advertisements suck because the Internet has conditioned people to believe everything is for free. Yay, filehosting is for free, email is for free, everything is for free. Except now the only way to make things work is by making them shitty as hell with advertisements and datamining. There is barely no room to bill for a service people gets from free tiers because people is used to not pay. That is the reason why Youtube is purposedly DESTROYING free video service, to force people to jump ship.

Youtube also gets malus points because the way they monetize advertisements is opaque as fuck. If you are the sort of person who is happy watching ads so video creators get a cut, I have news for you. The way video uploaders get paid is opaque as crap, the way advertisers are billed is opaque as crap. I remember hearing Youtube has a program in which youtubers pay youtube to get promoted so people watch their videos and generate ad revenue. WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK!!!!

And then you BUY a smartphone with actual money and it is loaded up with spyware so they can shove more ads up your ass. Advertisements are so entrenched in the industry that you cannot get rid off them even by paying.

So yeah, as far as I am concerned, advertises can go to hell, marketing people can go to hell, and I will deploy LAN level adblockers in every single network I administrate.


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Re: Then, once you paid for p
By: Arelor to Mindsurfer on Mon Nov 17 2025 09:41 am

Advertisements suck because the Internet has conditioned people to believe everything is for free. Yay, filehosting is for free, email is for free, everything is for free. Except now the only way to make things work is by making them shitty as hell with advertisements and datamining. There is barely no room to bill for a service people gets from free tiers because people is used to not pay. That is the reason why Youtube is purposedly DESTROYING free video service, to force people to jump ship.

I don't think it conditions people to believe everything is for free. People understand that watching ads is a cost of not having to pay money for something. And advertisements are nothing new - Advertisements have been used for decades in television, newspapers, magazines, etc.. It's a way to provide income (or suppliment income) for the company making the content.

Many sites on the internet don't require users to pay money to use them, but they still need money to operate. They make money by selling ads or by collecting user data that they sell. Some sites do directly charge users a fee to use them so that they don't need to show ads or collect data (or maybe some do both). This should not come as a surprise to anyone, as it's a system that has been in place for decades.

Nightfox

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Re: Then, once you paid for p
By: Nightfox to Arelor on Mon Nov 17 2025 11:04 am

I don't think it conditions people to believe everything is for free.

Regular people does not know how Internet services are built or operated, considerations such as operating costs are out of the scope of their cognitive abilities.

Power users know these things require a cash flow to be viable, but when so many instances of a given service are provided free of cost you are teaching people not to pay for it. If you believe otherwise, I challenge you to set up an email service which includes calendars and contact management, and market it towards end-users.

Sure, commercial email systems for end users exist but they are usually built around specific niches and require tailoring to their specific audiences. Aunt Karen is not going to pay for a Startmail email account when she can use Yahoo for free.


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Re: Then, once you paid for p
By: Arelor to Nightfox on Mon Nov 17 2025 03:07 pm

I don't think it conditions people to believe everything is for free.

Regular people does not know how Internet services are built or operated, considerations such as operating costs are out of the scope of their cognitive abilities.

You didn't quote any of the rest of my message.. My point was that advertising is a common thing that has been used in media (such as TV, magazines, etc.), and the internet is no exception. I think people are used to the idea of ads being included in things. I've been using the internet since 1995, so I remember when the internet was relatively uncluttered an didn't have many ads & things, but something has to provide the revenue to keep things running.

Nightfox

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Re: Re:Then, once you paid for p
By: Foriest Jan Smith to Mindsurfer on Mon Nov 17 2025 04:26 am

I've been meaning to try something like a VPN, but I've just never
looked into it. On an unrelated note... my Adblocker works great
on Tubi. I can watch Columbo ad free!!!

for a desktop computer or a phone?
there's free vpns or just vpn mode for some browsers.
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