I started a free trial and cancelled it immediately to have no ads while on holiday. Didn’t realize they are offering some illusion of achievements as a “reward” for your attention, doubling as a FOMO weapon for when you want to quit.

        • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
          42·
          2 months ago

          I disagree. The main reason to adblock is to stop data collection and such for targeted advertising. Sponsors aren’t targeted and are one of the ethical ways content creators make money. Basically none of the sponsorship goes to YouTube

          • dumbass@leminal.space
            7·
            2 months ago

            Yeah, but I don’t want to hear each youtubers cover over the same ad prompt. Plus the youtuber got paid for the ad read already, so me skipping a sponsor read is perfectly fine, I wasn’t gonna click their link anyway.

          • brb@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            2 months ago

            Yeah maybe you are right but I’m not going to buy anything that I see being advertised so there is no point in me sitting through the ad reads

      • Cossty@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        I have been using dearrow for about a year, cant believe I survived yt without it before.

  • Melkath@kbin.social
    236·
    2 months ago

    I had premium… until they started glitching my songs out because every time an ad would have played, they just skipped 15 seconds of the song, and since an ad never played, the trigger never got disarmed, and all of my songs would play for 5 seconds, then skip 15 seconds.

    I was willing to pay to rid my life of ads, but instead I just got glitchy garbled music.

    • Donut@leminal.spaceOPEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      Wow that sounds atrocious. Music glitching is such a mood killer. Hope you’re in a better place today.

    • Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      2 months ago

      I had the same on revanced, thought they found a new way to fight adblock.
      Turns out if you clear the cache occasionally it goes away. The youtube app is a piece of trash.

      I would switch, but I only use it for music and I haven’t seen another frontend support mixes, which I rely on

  • bestusername@aussie.zone
    13·
    2 months ago

    YouTube ReVanced for Android phones and tablets.

    Smarttube for Android TV.

    And there’s an array of ways to block ads in a web browser.

  • warm@kbin.earth
    102·
    2 months ago

    The psychology on caring about some useless pixels is strange.