Since May, uBO has been in a cat-and-mouse game with YouTube. And they’ve shown incredible resilience, especially when you consider that there are only two people on the uBO team dealing with YouTube.
The uBO team members are all volunteers. They’ve gone above and beyond to meet every little request from their users. But there’s a limit to how much they can take. At some point, the constant demands become too much, and they will leave uBO for good. It’s one thing to play cat and mouse with YouTube. It’s quite another to deal with a wave of angry users.
If you use YouTube enough, YouTube Premium is a great deal – albeit it a deal that’s steadily getting worse as Google increases its price.
As a matter of principle, I refuse to pay people to stop annoying me.
In fact, I maintain an “only if you’re the last viable option” blacklist of companies and product who slipped through my stack of three or four layers of ad-blocking.
The ad industry as a whole ruined it with their abusive behavior. I was fortunate enough to live through the endless pop-up days and I am not going back to ads. I even had service trough NetZero, that was the only way I would tolerate ads. I got that prompt last week just once and I stopped using YouTube for 2 days and reverted back to my offline (YouTube ripping) and realized that my battery actually lasted those 2 days. Either way I am going to revance and I can guarantee you no creator is missing my $.002
I couldnt edit my comment, but I would rather pay the premium fee to UBlock team.
YouTube was ruined with ads already more than five years ago, which is when I stopped using the official mobile app, because it was just absolute garbage. Things have only gotten worse in the latter years.
It’s easy to tell us to pay up in order to avoid being abused, but that’s mafia behavior, to hell with it.
We should decide as people to make advertising illegal and watch the parasites fall like flies. May the relevant survive.
Speak for yourself, I like YouTube and free-to-air TV (yes, here in Europe we actually watch free-to-air TV and there is even some good content in it), and I am capable of understanding all that infrastructure and all those content creators need to be paid.
>If you use YouTube enough, YouTube Premium is a great deal – albeit it a deal that’s steadily getting worse as Google increases its price.
I will never ever pay anything to Google. I’d rather pay twice the amount for a hypothetical paid Youtube Adblocker.
I am the kind of person who prefers to watch ads from having yet another subscription eating my paycheck each month (those subscriptions can pile up pretty quickly), but even if I wanted to pay to not have ads, I would avoid paying for YouTube Premium specifically. YouTube became the default video hosting platform of the web because it didn’t try to push people towards “Premium” subscriptions (as other video hosting platforms did), so what they are doing now is a bait and switch. Don’t validate it. In other words, if push comes to shove, I will happily pay double per month for a hypothetical third-party AdBlocker than for YouTube Premium.
PS: I mean, I already paid for the Video DownloadHelper extension so I can download YouTube videos without Premium.
I used to use that but switched to youtube-dl and then the yt-dlp fork of it. What about Video DownloadHelper appeals to you? Does it have SponsorBlock integration these days like yt-dlp does?