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I recently cancelled youtube premium due to the price increase. Invidious has been great to catch up on new videos from all my subbed channels. Sure It’s only at 720p. But i don’t have to see recommended videos cluttering up the main page or having to watch multiple non-skippable ads. I didn’t mind paying for premium family plan when it was $17/month. But the recent jump to $22 in a single increase is a bit much. At that price, it would cost me more than hulu and disney plus subscriptions combined.

> having to watch multiple non-skippable ads

UBlock Origin blocks ads completely. :)

Sponsorblock then skips embedded sponsor segments too.

The day YouTube incorporates something similar to sponsor block in YouTube premium will be the day that I actually buy YouTube premium. I think if YouTube premium advertises that they remove the ads, they should remove all of the ads including in video sponsors.

They probably should share YouTube premium revenues with content creators then

They already do

I mean honestly though. A while back I was deciding between getting youtube premium or spotify for music, and I was leaning towards youtube except for two things:

1) youtube was refusing to take my money. I don't have a credit card and youtube does not support any other payment methods.

2) youtube premium at the time would STILL show you ads. It just promised they would be "less frequent".

Yeah on desktop browsers , UBlock origin works well. But haven’t found a solution for mobile app. (IOS). Any recommendations?

Orion browser for iOS is a tad rough around the edges still but its adblock works very well

Yattee might be something to look into. https://github.com/yattee/yattee

uYouPlus [1] doesn't require a Jailbreak, just sideloading. It implements SponsorBlock as well.

[1] https://github.com/qnblackcat/uYouPlus

> Sure It’s only at 720p.

Some instances offer DASH which gives you up to 4K depending your bandwidth IIRC.

_They don't understand that we never agreed to any of their TOS/policies, they don't understand that we don't use their API._ is both funny and hardcore

Between this, the Twitter changes and the Reddit API changes, I think we can officially declare the APIpocalypse has begun.

I would be very happy if all of these services finally shut down instead of continuing to eat everything thanks to infinite funding

APIcolapse ?

> Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube

Wow. I didn't know such project even existed. I guess it's time to clone! Thanks Youtube! Also, you can pry our adblocks from our cold dead disks!

> They don't understand that we never agreed to any of their TOS/policies, they don't understand that we don't use their API.

yeah, they DEFINITELY DO:

https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/blob/e7bed765/src/invidi...

not sure what backwards logic they are using to come to this conclusion, but its objectively wrong, and wont hold up in court. Granted, I am also guilty of this in my own project, but I dont pretend that I am not using the API, I just dont care because my project is tiny. They no longer have that luxury.

Perhaps they mean they, as a project, don't access Youtube API? But the user does?

The enshitification continues.

Does this mean the legal team do not understand tech? How come a company like Google/YouTube have no checks-balances when sending things like this? Or do the top-level not have powers over legal team?

> Does this mean the legal team do not understand tech

Considering how they keep calling the random id number that identifies your video a "rolling cipher", of course they don't.

There is FreeTube too.

FreeTube is an open source desktop YouTube player built with privacy in mind.

- https://freetubeapp.io - https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube

When in trouble, use nightly version (release is not frequent)

There is also Piped [0] which is a direct alternative to Invidious. It uses the NewPipeExtractor [1] from the NewPipe Android app [2] to contact YouTube.

[0] https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped [1] https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor [2] https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe

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