Excuse you, YouTube 😡

That's not an ad. That's a high quality premium product reminder. To remove these reminders please subscribe to YouTube Premium Plus.

Ublock on Firefox> premium, they will always try to advertise even if you pay unfortunately

This even works on my tablet, even after they blocked vanced from playing videos.
- idk if you have heard but there is revanced

smarttube next my beloved

Unfortunately, youtube is mostly a TV thing for me. Very hard to ad block on smart tvs
- literally what you are asking for, you can download it from github
- Smarttube next is for Android TV. Works very well. Sometimes you do need to update (can be done in-app) after YouTube decides to break third party apps.
does this support 4k? Anything i’ve used that says they do actually don’t. FreeTube, Invidious, Piped
- It does.
In moments like these, I absolutely hate having a Tizen TV, I really need to get a Chromecast or something.

People love to shit on yt premium but it's single handedly the best value I've ever gotten out of a service. And I'm okay with financially supporting a service that I use a lot.

This is upsetting, though. I don't watch a ton on tv, but when I have I've never seen an ad like this pop up. I'll be watching out for them.

yeah, i basically have youtube on throughout the day so it's a good "investment" for me. but yeah, the deal is, i pay them, they don't show me ads (and sponsorblock does the rest) so this is quite wild.
- Yep. This is the first legitimate "YouTube premium sucks" I've seen because it's not holding up their end of the transaction.
  I haven't seen this happen to me yet and I use YouTube on my PC, my phone, and my TV via Alexa.

If they actually continue on their path of ensuring no ad blockers work on YouTube, I will simply cease watching it completely. I really hate how aggressive advertisement became over the years. I didn't mind non-gore (because some ads shown really gruesome health issues) and non-porn side panels which didn't animate. Hell, sometimes I'd click if they had what would interest me. There is absolute zero chance I will buy anything which bothers me. And I won't let it waste the time of my life.

I like the game grumps and Lex Fridman. The documentaries are cool, but I have to watch them in a different container or YouTube will start feeding me 30 minute ads or rants that sound reasonable but are super bigoted and flawed when you actually think about it
Reddit meant more to me than anything else I do online, and I committed to leaving it behind even before I found Lemmy... YouTube is barely worth it even without the ads. And I've got a whole fediverse of video content to investigate
- One of my oldest friends has recently started turning to the dark side, his PC died and he's run out of new shows to watch... so started watching stuff on YouTube via the suggestions.
  It started off as debates between men and women... I warned him that it was going to suggest him more and more extreme stuff and the algo will walk him further to the right. Now he's quoting Andrew Tate, watching videos with conspiracies about great reset, ranting about trans people, ugh. When he said "the media is shoving trans in our face, all these trans personalities" I asked him to list these trans personalities, he couldn't list one. He's just spewing the rhetoric YT fed him. Very sad, he's not the only one being infected by this shit.
There are dozens of third-party YouTube frontends that'll work.

As someone who uses and really enjoys Youtube Premium this upsets me. Feels very counter-to what is agreed on purchase:

I wonder if it's possible to file a complaint as false advertisement. As part of the subscription it even says in the FAQ "ad-free" which this is definitely not. I'm not a lawyer though and this is not legal advice.

This reminds me of the "Ad free" tier of Paramount Plus. There were unskippable ads for other paramount shows. And the 5 second bumper counted as an ad and was unskippable.
- I can't explain how much this pisses me off
I'm not a lawyer but anyone with a brain cell would agree this is false advertising at least, possibly breach of contract depending on what the TOS says.

This is why I would not want to pay a subscription to YouTube. I don't trust that they would ever truely work out all the ads

I've had Premium since it was called Red (got it through Google Music) and never see ads. Would be upset if I was OP, but haven't experienced that issue myself.
SmartTube - if you've got an Android streaming box (like an NVIDIA Shield Pro, for example), sideload it. You'll thank me later.
I’ve never seen an ad on the youtube app, it’s just a bug. ___

So were at the point where we are paying for an experience with ads AND invasive trackers and personal data mining + psychological profiling just to watch videos? What the fuck, thats distopian AF.

Put it into some AR goggles and the dystopian cyberpunk future will no longer be sci fi

That's why I canceled Premium. I was still getting ads AND Google still used trackers. AND content creators get next to no money from it...

All that paying does is prove you’ll pay whatever they want. Just like a blackmailer, it’s never enough. They always escalate in their attempts to extract “value”.

It’s the same damn story, time after time. “Oh, we put a few ads to cover expenses - it’ll be limited, we promise.” 3 months later: “We have a premium plan that hides ads.” Another 3 months: “We now have informational banners on premium for our own content. Since it’s our own, it’s totally not an ad!”

Then just: “Pay us a monthly rate and get served ads.”

It’s like fucking clockwork with these ghouls.

Wait people actually pay for that shit 🤔

Yes and it worth it not to see garbage ads.
- to be fair you don't need premium to not have ads
Via VPN in India. Costs about 1$ per month.
- You can just use smart tube for TV and revanced for Android if you don't wanna pay
- So you just need VPN for one time purchase or how? Asking for a friend.
Yes. I use a service so I pay for the service. I use software frameworks so I donate to their patreons.

Corporations ☕

They be wanting them moneys. 🤷

Thanks! I will do that on my Android TV right away.
- For Android TV you have Smart Tube Next
- What's your smart TV? I've jailbroken my LG C1 and I have YouTube without ads, and better yet, SponsorBlock built in so I don't get even the ads being read by the YouTubers themselves.

If they start inserting ads in videos I’m watching even though I literally pay them not to, I’ll be more than just mildly infuriated.

Do you have a Chromecast? Install "smarttube" instead. It strips out all ads, and even has sponsor block built in so it skips sponsor stuff in video.

Can’t believe I hadn’t heard of this. Would always cast from my ad-blocked PC. But now I can use this - Thanks!
- I don't know, I use uBlock Origin for Chrome (not sure if there are equivalents for other browsers) and I never see adds from my desktop, with a free account.
  It does not scrap out sponsor babble but it definitely blocks youtube adds.

Pretty typical for YouTube honestly, they'd try and justify it as saying it's not an "as" it's an "experience highlight" or something.

https://invidious.io

I think they just got a cease and desist from Google yesterday.
- Yeah but they couldn't possibly shut down each and every instance
  ..right? I reall hope this statement doesn't age badly

And this is why I just use an ad free YouTube client, literally provides better features for free

Question, finally asked: Where do you get an ad free youtube client these days? Surely, posting a direct link here on Lemmy is not against rules?
I'd been using Revanced for quite a while, but then it eventually got caught up with and it stopped working. There was some hullabaloo about "fake" Revanced clones, and now I hear it's transformed into a "patcher". Only, on my phone I get a warning saying the patching may not work due to my processor or kernel or such -- and lo, it does not, the patching throws an exception late-ish in the process and I'm left with an unpatched youtube app.
- I use revanced without issues. But good to know about alternatives for when the day eventually comes...
- https://freetubeapp.io/

Hey, another person who likes robot combat

More like very infuriating, I pay for premium too, if I see ads I’ll be pissed!

Hmmmmm

SmartTubeTV or whatever works great.

If I see one of those I'm cancelling my subscription and going back to the third party apps.

You just need to upgrade to Premium Premium to get the privilage to skip the ad 2 seconds faster than Normal Premium.

I don't see why buying youtube premuim is any better than just using ublock origin.

Because it works on smart tvs and Chromecast. Also I like YouTube music. I watch enough YouTube that it's worth it for me. Almost 0% of that watch time is on a device that supports uBlock Origin
Also you know...supporting channels I watch...
Probably just a morality thing. Even though some creators have spoken against its use because the experience is bad

I'm also a premium YT subscriber and if I see this or they kick me off for using PiHole, I'll cancel my account and just set up some automation with YT-DLP to Plex or Infuse for channels I like watching. If youtube decided that it's their turn to get shitty like the rest of the popular internet, I'll be beyond upset.

You can actually set up firewall settings to block any traffic coming from the ads, the only way they can stop that form of ad block is to block the person's IP address.
- I'm mainly worried that some of the people I like watching on youtube will decide that youtube isn't worth it anymore and they'll stop making content entirely. Or even switch over to twitch, which I've never been able to get into.

What's going on with this screen? Is it a projector? What is the fuzzy thing surrounding it?

It's just bad lighting. It's a Vizio P series from a few years ago. (Not a bad set)
The fuzzy stuff is a bit of garland. Decoration.

Use third party clients

Strange. I have Premium as well but I've never received an ad.