Morphe
Gonna catch a lot of “get with the times” but an ad blocker and watching YouTube in browser on my phone - I’ve never seen the value of needing Premium to do adblocking or a whole ass app like Vanced. Maybe sponsorblock for more but like overall, my impression has always been YouTube Premium is a joke of a service that can never offer anything more than adblocking/sponsor block already just does from a browser on my phone.
This is why they’re trying to lock down everything. Nerfing ad blockers in chrome, semi-banning all unapproved apps in Android.
And don’t get me started on smart TVs. They were broken right out of the gate.
How big could the family be?
I ended my Premium subscription about six months ago and instead got a VPN set to Albania. Ads? Gone. I live fucking with the google’s data harvesting operations
You can also install ReVanced on Android
On my mom’s apple TV?
I don’t know about Apple TV. But for Android TV you can install SmartTube
Or grayjay.app or Firefox with ublock origin or lots of ways that don’t involve giving Google money
I just installed ReVanced and it’s full of ads. How do I stop that?
Try morphe, it’s the current modern version of revanced.
Youtube already makes more money than Disney, right? So of course they ramp up prices. It‘s a successful product after all and the line must go up. The more money it makes the more expensive it‘ll get.
That‘s why you should never give them anything in the first place and use an Adblocker instead.
I would also recommend Sponsorblock because most Youtube sponsorships are overpriced garbage or complete scams. It honestly seems too good to be true but it‘s open source and apparently can cover operational costs on just donations. What I really like about Sponsorblock is how you can curate your experience to a T. It lets you skip all sort of content that you may not like such as self-promotions, credits, previews/flashbacks, intros, and more. It comes really close to the internet highways concept I have long only dreamed about where you‘re served exactly what you want and you don‘t need a silly AI agent to do any of it.
DeArrow is another useful extension for Youtube, created to remove clickbait from your feed. It removes thumbnails and changes video titles based on user suggestions similar to Sponsorblock.
Youtube „Premium“ could never give you this experience for all the money in the world.
No
It’s $3/month more than Spotify, and you get both music and videos. That doesn’t seem that bad to me? Tidal is probably a better deal though, since it’s cheaper and all plans come with lossless (FLAC).
I’ve been using a Plex server with my own ripped CDs for a while. Jellyfin is good too. If you listen to the same music a lot of the time, why pay a monthly fee when you can just buy the album once, rip it to your server, and listen to it forever?
I’m with you. I save copies of all my music files externally.
For those who still want to stream though, use Metrolist. Works exactly the same as Spotify and is a FOSS/No Ads product. I made a YT video about it recently.
Cheaper than spotify when you consider you get both YT Music and YT at the same time. So when you are watching YT you are not wasting money on music and when you are listening to music you ain’t wasting YT money.
Here in Latvia I pay 19.99€ (24$) for family plan, wouldn’t be a problem if they raised by couple euros. I’m getting price rises everywhere right now because of dram shortage. My hetzner vps got bumped up by 2€ because of dram
Personally I prefer SmartTube
That’s what I use, but I thought it only worked on android TVs
On phone, I use revanced
You could be right. I indeed use SmartTube on my TV. It’s my primary device for watching YouTube videos.
I’m loving noutube
And if you prefer the terminal there’s youtube-tui
The Pirate Bay will always be with us.
I pretty much only use it for music, and most of the extensions have still gotten me by. At least long enough to rip the song to my hard drive for offline use. Fuck $16 a month. That’s ridiculous. For $16 I could get an album or two every month and not have to worry about some buffering bullshit. After a year, not only would I be supporting the artists directly and avoiding paying paying a scummy company, I’d actually have some discographies built up to permanently show for it. They’re just inadvertently trying to support people sailing the high seas. So irritating…
For $16 I could get an album or two every month and not have to worry about some buffering bullshit
So why don’t you do that… ?
I actually did just buy a lot of albums in the last 48 hours, once I realized that I could bc my tax return lol. Before that I was pretty broke and wishing I could actually buy some. A light bulb finally went off and I was like oh yeah, I got some money now :p I do like to test drive a lot to see if I really vibe with it also. if it’s something that actually touches me, I usually wind up wanting to have a higher quality version stored locally.
You can also set up a Jellyfin or Plex server and have your own streaming service :)
How would someone, hypothetical, do that ripping part?
Kind of janky but maybe something like this? https://soundclouddl.cc/ or something like this perhaps https://github.com/archisvaze/arcdlp if you just use a search engine to look up YouTube to MP3 or something to that nature or you can find a lot of different results. I think they even make browser extensions as well.
Even easier is https://monochrome.tf/
Not YouTube, Soulseek. Nicotine frontend. Use a VPN.
For Soulseek you should use a VPN that support port forwarding. AirVPN is the one that’s usually recommended.
I buy the discs from my disc shop then use soulseek to download the discs already ripped.
Other times I simply buy their discs from bandcamp so I get the digital files directly.
Neotube for music and revanced for videos are atill working the same.
Revanced works for Google Music too.
The library is still free, and probably has access to a lot of streaming. If your local one doesn’t, a lot of large libraries will let you sign up for a card even if you don’t live nearby if you just show up in person to sign up. Although some don’t even require that anymore due to COVID precautions.
I live 2 blocks from my local library and I absolutely love it. I take my 2 year old daughter every week. She’ll play in the activity room, we’ll go to a story time and check out 6-7 books for the week. I’ll peruse the video game section, check out a movie if they have something on my to watch list. I haven’t gotten to use their maker space yet but I’m itching to. They also offer streaming, ebooks and audiobooks through Libby and Hoopla. 11/10 would recommend the library.
I love the libraries in my area because they’re well-funded and pretty much always accept requests for new content (books, movies, etc). If there’s a new book and they don’t have it, I can ask them to order it and it’ll usually be available within a week.
Don’t forget Kanopy for even more streaming options with your library card!
Kanopy is such a gem, so much good stuff.
For whatever reason my local library only stocks books. I tried donating some movies and they said they don’t take them. Weird.
I just updated my smart tube app cause they broke the stable version. Beta is working just fine though
Mines got no issues I’m watching it now.
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Is there an option for iOS?
Firefox focus browser. Single tab browser but blocks ads. Works for YouTube.
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thank you!!
This is (currently) only for US people
