Dramatic much? Canceling a subscription is ‘the unthinkable’ now? For fuck’s sake.
forcing many users to consider the unthinkable “Do I really need 300 subscriptions?”
Not aiding capitalism by canceling a subscription = suicide
Haha yeah. It’s unthinkable that YouTube doesn’t make ANOTHER billion dollars.
Unsubscribing and installing UBlock Origin is perfectly thinkable. It also gets which side is the “dark side” wrong.
“For the first time in three years” is a weird way to phrase regular price increases.
It’s even worse than that. They increase the price right after they increase the ad length. As in “well, now that ads are longer, this subscription has more value. Therefore we should increase the price”.
I’d gladly pay them about $10 a month for a family plan.
At that point, maintaining AdBlocker updates on half a dozen different platforms would be more pain than the money.
But let’s be honest, they’re not putting out Netflix and Disney quality content, it’s just 5-9’s of slop with an occasional diamond of a creator.
at $27 a month, and a trajectory over time to be more expensive than cable, they can fuck right off.
Why is everything being done “quietly” lately?
Because its a covering instead of saying underhanded or sneaky or tricking users.
“I didn’t steal, I was just quietly sneaking money from their wallet!”
Announcing price hikes is bad marketing
I’m speaking more of the reporting. It seems like every headline claims something is being done “quietly” now when it was actually announced loud and clear. Take this price hike, for example. I got an email from Google last week telling me the price went up. That wasn’t “quietly”. “Quietly” would be raising the price completely unannounced and hoping no one notices.
The answer is simple: the site that published the article is complete garbage
For me the unthinkable is giving my hard earned money to a multi billion dollar corporation
tell me about it; I’m paying double for revanced now
Loool, I think about cancelling stuff all the time.
Hell I think I’ll go cancel something right now.
THE UNTHINKABLE! Not paying for trumping trumpy service or goods. We should pay for things no matter how bad they are of course.
Okay, but they are not just paying more for the same service. YouTube Premium is worth more now because it allows you to avoid 90 second unstoppable ads. So don’t say Google doesn’t do anything for its
consumerscustomers!I havent seen an ad on YT in like 2 years and i havent had premium in 3 years
Tell us your secret, sourcerer
Depends on where you’re watching YouTube, but there’s options for most devices. On PC you can use an ad blocker such as uBlock Origin, or a browser with a built in ad blocker like Brave. If you use a phone you can use the mobile browser version (not perfect but pretty serviceable) with a browser that blocks ads. There’s app options for Android such as Greyjay, and modded YouTube apps such as Revanced and Morphe. There’s an app called SmartTube Next that works on most smart TVs. If you have a VPN, setting it to Albania will cause ads to not be displayed on most services even if you’re using the official app and works on every device I’ve tried it on. There’s probably more ways but those are what I’m aware off the top of my head. There is no reason that in 2026 anyone should be seeing ads on YouTube.
So glad PipePipe and FreeTube are a thing
For now…
I would like to add an honourable mention to your list here: Kodi YouTube add-on. Somehow this is working for me again after being broken for ages. It’s not the same (you need to use a Google account and API set-up) but no ads, auto play, recommend videos…
http://grayjay.app/ no Google accounts, no bullshit
Looks promising. It would work fine if I don’t want to login with Google? Does it run ads like YouTube? I see they plan to support a couple hosts, which is cool, one application for all media streaming.
I remember when they promised that anyone who paid for YouTube Red would be allowed to pay for YouTube Premium for the same price until the sun explodes.
And then they scrapped it.
It wasn’t a surprise. But I was disappointed.
Why do people give their money to google? Just use adblock
Adblock has been my wingman for years!
