This ad just popped up and it should be more infuriating than just mildly, But it's more of Google being Google. How many different tiers of YouTube are there now so Alphabet can skim off slightly higher margins from each user possible? Premium LITE? Really? And I am just tickled by the fact that the main perk is not that it removes ads but that there will be slightly less of them. "Pay us to watch ads" Is the new corporate standard.
YouTube Premium Lite
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Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 81 pts · 37d
There was a rule back in the 90s that the more words were used in the title of the software the worse it was. Adobe Photoshop was good. Corel DrawMaker 3.5 for Windows 98 Special Edition was crap.
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org · 48 pts · 37d
That's actually a running joke with my friends. We always add "2000 professional plus - gold edition" if we want to mock something
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 37d
Jesus_666@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 37d
YouTube Premium Lite Professional RTX Turbo for Workgroups & Knuckles – Featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry™ series
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 36d
Sponsored by HelloFresh
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 36d
on ice?
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 36d
That's so old-fashioned. Premium Plus Platinum is modern!
toiletobserver@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 37d
https://ublockorigin.com/
Free-99!
growsomethinggood@reddthat.com · 29 pts · 37d
Oops I dropped this url here, how did that happen!
toiletobserver@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 37d
Also new pipe, pipe pipe, and the many other similar apps doing good work
dangrousperson@feddit.org · 5 pts · 36d
VacuumTube for anyone using a linux HTPC and wants a TV interface
I use it everyday and it works great 99% of the time and usually YouTube itself is to blame and the App gets an update a couple days later that fixes everything
eezeebee@lemmy.ca · 33 pts · 37d
I prefer YouTube Premium Plus Silver tier. It still has ads, but they are premium ads, which I find go down my throat more smoothly. Anything less makes me gag.
StumblingWasabi@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 35d
The premium ads are selected based off of your habits to ensure their products that you'll love. (In small text) if you go more than a week without purchasing one of these products there will be an additional charge
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 36d
I prefer "unpaid YouTube with adblockers".
osanna@lemmy.vg · 26 pts · 37d
lmao. I haven't seen a youtube ad in years, and I use it almost all day, and yet, I don't pay anything for it.
starlinguk@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 36d
Until Google locks Android down.
osanna@lemmy.vg · 8 pts · 36d
that's the neat part, they already are!
crispbacon99@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 36d
Corporate American sounds like an abusive ex
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 36d
Yeah, the government won't let us have our own property though so not really an ex
Squizzy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 35d
I have found I use less of things they make inaccessible. They took reddit away and I have been fine, for once people are talking to me and I havent already read the top comments on the topic. Their move to block old.reddit.com will probably get rid of the last bits I use it for, the odd movie review thread or search for a wank.
sunnyjim@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 36d
GrapheneOS, Iodé and /e/OS should be unaffected if you want open Android
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 36d
it genuinely makes me a bit angry that y'all never mention lineage, why are you ignoring by far the most normalized and usable android distribution??
sunnyjim@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 35d
I just wasn't aware that Lineage is degoogled, that's all.
It's not some conspiracy against Lineage, Lineage seems great. Haven't used it in a while but that's just because I use e/OS personally.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 34d
being degoogled is kinda the point of lineage 😭 i don't hate /e/os and the other stuff but holy hell they seem to have completely buried the existence of lineage and it feels so fucking strange and not good
StumblingWasabi@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 35d
I'd use lineage if I could, but they only support a year older modle of my phone
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 36d
Then get iOS and run yt plus. Quite literally iOS users CAN still run adless youtube even though it's a bit of a hack (refresh every 7 days via SideStore app on your phone unless you have a dev membership)
Or the better solution if you care about privacy and freedom over convenience, get an Android phone with an openable bootloader. Preferably one that's not a Pixel.
starlinguk@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 36d
My next phone will be a Fairphone, but I'm not made of money so I'm stuck with my Samsung atm.
Reginald_T_Biter@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 36d
Im on the verge of getting a new phone, any you can recommend?
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 36d
Haven't kept up with the Android ecosystem after moving to iOS. I hear GrapheneOS is working with Motorola to support an upcoming phone of theirs if you're privacy minded (GrapheneOS) and don't want a Pixel (only device it currently runs on)
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 36d
Who talks about mobile?
Reygle@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 37d
"Buy this other ludicrous thing from us that you don't want for partial benefit on this other thing you hate!"
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 37d
How the hell is it “premium” and “Lite”?
It can only be one.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 37d
Luxury Sport Utility Vehicle
thesohoriots@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 37d
Less filling, tastes great.
darkmarx@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 37d
"Pay us and watch ads" has been around a long time. That's what cable tv was. We've gone full circle.
One day, something new will come along and kill streaming in the same way streaming did cable. Once things get this fragmented, something else always comes along to replace it, and the cycle will repeat.
It will be cheap, easy to use, and everyone will switch. Once enough people move over, the big corporations will get involved and the enshitification will begin. It will be adveetised to death, segmented, and people will look for an alternative.
Mannivu@feddit.it · 7 pts · 36d
And this is why piracy will never cease to exist.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 36d
i'm very curious how you imagine streaming being killed, are people gonna go back to laserdisc?..
SalmonTractor@discuss.tchncs.de · 15 pts · 37d
My favorite edition is yt-dlp.
Chais@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 36d
Wow, I could get that thing I don't care for by paying for that other thing I don't care for. What a great deal.
sigezayaq@startrek.website · 12 pts · 36d
they are trying so hard for people to pay for AI that they have to include unrelated stuff in the package lmao
AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social · 9 pts · 37d
It does remove ads in most videos, just not in Shorts, or on music videos. The whole deal is they're essentially un-bundling a music subscription from YT Premium, which makes it cheaper, and is then better if you, say, watch YouTube, but already use Spotify for your music.
Essentially, you don't see any ads when you watch videos, AKA no midrolls, but you might see a small banner ad above the list of next suggested videos to the right of the video player, and if you constantly scroll shorts they might toss some ads in there as well.
Personally, as someone who doesn't use YouTube for music, and doesn't like scrolling shorts, I see this as perfectly reasonable as a way to reduce the cost, especially when you can click the Theater mode button on any video to block out the majority of the suggested videos area by default before any sidebar ad would even make it on your screen.
huppakee@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 36d
Great news then, if you get the AI Pro plan they include it free of charge!
AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social · 2 pts · 36d
Who wouldn't want to be a "pro" at having a machine think for them? Sign me up!!!! /s
tal@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 37d
I'd rather have more tiers.
I'd pay for a tier where they had a no-log, no-datamining policy, which they don't currently offer. I'm not demanding that they change their existing tiers. I'm sure that there are plenty of people who are not interested in paying for that and don't care if Google is plonking everything they do into a database. But that's what I'd like, so I'd like to have a different tier.
I like YouTube. It has a lot of content that I like watching that I get a lot of value out of. But I don't like having someone trying every way possible to profile me. Right now, I can't get the first without the second.
I want to just pay up front, not pay via selling my personal data or pay via selling my eyeball time. Same way I pay for most products out there.
huppakee@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 36d
Not legally, no.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 36d
"legally"
ryper@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 37d
The tier makes sense, if not the name. Google insists on including music streaming in Youtube Premium, and Premium Lite is a cheaper tier that doesn't include music streaming. It's missing some other features too, but it beats Premium for people who just want to not have ads and for some reason won't use an ad blocker.
This support page about Premium Lite says it has no ads on "most non-music content, excluding Shorts. Ads may appear when you search or browse". Still having ads on music content makes sense given that Premium Lite doesn't include music streaming.
Pika@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 37d
You forgot to mention that it doesn't allow for mobile queuing either. That was what made me drop my sub as a whole instead of just downgrading. I would rather just use ad block style services such as gray-jay than experience mobile youtube without the ability to queue videos. I use it heavily for going to sleep, and with how finicky the auto play system is for choosing what video it should play next, there's no way I trust it to not absolutely screw my suggested videos.
huppakee@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 36d
Spotify has a lot of content that's great for falling a sleep, tons of curated playlists and you can queue audio (i'm assuming your not actually watching videos anyway). O and also, if you let Spotify auto-play it never effects your suggested content on YouTube.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 36d
But... Youtube is a bunch of audio-only, video-only and -with-audio streams either way. So it's just an app thing?
ryper@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 36d
Premium includes Google's equivalent of paid Spotify. Premium Lite and free users get something closer to Spotify's free tier.
rangber@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 37d
May I introduce you to my savior? https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe
gedaliyah@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 37d
There is also Morphe, which is fine for me.
liking625@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 37d
"With fewer ads". Long gone are the good deals of the past, all we get know is shit
HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 37d
I'd rather pay more for no ads than pay less for a few select ads. This is ridiculous. Just like Netflix's cheaper ad tier. SMH.
SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 36d
Oh, that's so weird. How do I enable this in SmartTube?
Googz?
HOW DO I WATCH YOUR ADS IN SMART TUBE?
Do I need to use yt-dlp with TubeArchivist?
IS THAT WHAT WE SHOULD DO GOOGLE?
https://www.tubearchivist.com/
https://github.com/yuliskov/smarttube
Oh, and while I'm here -
https://degoog.org/
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 37d
🤮🤮🤮
psx_crab@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 37d
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 36d
It's that circles thing all over again. Everyone get in the circles and put stuff in other circles here's a firefly reference. YouTube, no it's part of circle now, put all this stuff in circles and put your name on the YouTube comments so people can put you in circles. Put them in circles too. Little Google is going to take on Facebook put Facebook in circles too.