> ad-block whack-a-mole diagnostician that is being done as open source community efforts now: NewPipe for mobile, SmartTube for smart TVs etc. All you have to do is update them once in a while

For those of us who are too cheap to pay the subscription:

On my iPhone I almost never see YTube ads. I don’t use the YTube app and instead I install Chrome and watch YT that way. I lose notifications—which is perfect for me, since I don’t want many notifications on my phone anyway.

This might also work in Safari but I haven’t tested it.

It's not comparable, it's superior! The youtube app stinks! And I don't care about "seamlessly" using it across my devices.

I use skipvids.com across phone and computer and xbox. I'm too cheap to pay $15.99 per month

I refuse to give google any cent (and I also do not use youtube at all, so at least I’m consistent).

> Do you pay for any of Netflix, Paramount, AppleTV, etc.?

No.

Edit: I do pay $5/mo for PBS

I would prefer to pay that money to creators directly than to pay it to an adtech firm and trust that they'll dole it out fairly.

>if you have the option to go ad free for a low cost, why not do it?

It requires the use of a google account and there is no way to even request opting out of the accompanying data harvesting. Any "curation" or "recommendation" that would inevitably happen is also an anti-feature.

>Do you pay for any of Netflix, Paramount, AppleTV, etc.?

No

I find that all of Google’s ad products are under-moderated for malicious ads. It’s a choice on their part to not tightly control this—they certainly could, though it would harm their incredible profitability if they did more scrutiny on the ads they show. I personally don’t especially care to pay a premium not to see deepfakes of celebrities promoting crypto scams.

It's a 15 now.

And yes, thars the issue. I pretty much unsubscribed from Disney+, HBO, and Netflix becsuse I can't just have multiple 15 dollar subscriptions add up.

As of now, YouTube, Rider, and Google One are my only subs. And I should really shuffle around space so I can unsub from One.

Do you know how it compares to LibreTube[1]? For the SponsorBlock integration; it works well for me, but I kinda miss the newpipe interface.

[1]: https://github.com/libre-tube/LibreTube