• AeonFelis@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Okay, but they are not just paying more for the same service. YouTube Premium is worth more now because it allows you to avoid 90 second unstoppable ads. So don’t say Google doesn’t do anything for its consumers customers!

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          8 hours ago

          Depends on where you’re watching YouTube, but there’s options for most devices. On PC you can use an ad blocker such as uBlock Origin, or a browser with a built in ad blocker like Brave. If you use a phone you can use the mobile browser version (not perfect but pretty serviceable) with a browser that blocks ads. There’s app options for Android such as Greyjay, and modded YouTube apps such as Revanced and Morphe. There’s an app called SmartTube Next that works on most smart TVs. If you have a VPN, setting it to Albania will cause ads to not be displayed on most services even if you’re using the official app and works on every device I’ve tried it on. There’s probably more ways but those are what I’m aware off the top of my head. There is no reason that in 2026 anyone should be seeing ads on YouTube.