Less interested in youtube more and more
It’ll be interesting to see how this works with ReVanced, which is technically their own app, just stripped of the ads and sponsors. Can’t be dinged for adblocking when they’re never served up to begin with.
ReVanced is made by Google?
If you don’t mind paying ~2$ a month, you can get Family Premium using a VPN (I used India)
Current working method from HUKD: (Private/Incognito browser is best)
Create a new Google Account. Enter card details. Enter a fake billing address, any random address generator will do, as long as it’s from the correct region. Then select Try it Free. Navigate to YouTube, press YouTube Premium, and double-check that everything is in the right currency. Enter the same credit card and address information you used for creating the new Google Account. Click Buy 👍
You can then add your main Google account as a family member.👍
About $15/year if you do Turkey and use a Privacy.com card
I’ve been wondering if automated download tools will be subject to this. I run Downie and youtube-dl on my Mac. Both have escaped ads until now. I haven’t yet run into the ad-block-block to test if they can get around it.
I think youtube-dl (or yt-dlp) takes frame buffers from watching the video and just glues them together. I don’t think there is much Google could, they have already tried to take it off GitHub before.
Watching ads on YouTube is really not an option for me. And I’m not sure I would pay for premium unless the recommendation algorithm gets much much better…
Why even consider paying Google anything?
Just get a better adblocker.
I mean in an “ideal” world where the AdBlock prevention really can’t be circumvented somehow.
