So, I don’t remember when was the last time I willingly used Youtube. I have been sent links for friends, but I don’t type “youtube.com” nor do I have their app installed. The last Youtube video I watched was my cousin’s college graduation
Oh man, does that mean my sub to yt-dlp is going to go up as well?
I’m concerned to. Hopefully we can weather the upcoming storm.
Meanwhile gorhill won’t even take donations.
We love you gorhill!
— TheQuartering (@TheQuartering) June 4, 2026
Quoting this chud’s X account? A new publication to avoid.
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People pay for that?
I pay for the “lite” version but only because I want to watch it on my Apple TV without ads and I wasn’t able to get any other apps or workarounds up for that.
I was surprised to read that there is a “lite” plan again after I was kicked off when it shut down like ten years ago.
Edit: Oh, it’s not available in Sweden. Well I’ll stick with my browser addons for an ad free experience then.
Speaking as someone who has used Apple devices for literal decades, go to Best Buy and purchase an NVIDIA Shield Pro.
Replace the stock launcher with FLauncher, replace YouTube with SmartTube Next, and Twitch with S0undTV.
Congrats. Nearly the same performance and feature set and no ads.
The only shortcomings are with VP9-based HDR video…
Which means ONLY YouTube HDR content won’t play. Plex, Netflix, Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, etc. all play can HDR or DolbyVision from their native video codec (h.265 / HEVC) with zero issues…
Actually, I love my Apple TV. It’s better than all other streaming devices I’ve tried so far. The only issue I have is with YouTube ads. Everything else is fantastic.
Also, I don’t use any Google products, except for YT. Aside from that I’m completely degoogled.
I’ve heard great things about the Shield and I appreciate the feedback on it! I hope someone else sees your advice and finds It useful! Thank you!
Apple definitely now has the top tier hardware for sure… but I just cannot stand the pervasiveness of all the increasing ads everywhere, and the Shield can basically be de-Googled.
If you ever decide the ads are too much but still want the relatively high performance, I can’t recommend the Shield enough.
Good to hear everything else is good though.
you laughing. but they can always make it paid and you wont be able to do anything about it.
Honestly if it goes completely paid ill just stop using it. Its not going to make me become a customer and the cool thing is some other platform, option or activity will fill its void.
Youtube will just become another streaming service that I dont pay for
As in make YouTube itself a completely paid platform? Tbh, I expect that is coming before too long.
You say that like it would affect me at all
No, I steal the content and have the ads auto-stripped by not being a mong and having a few plugins installed.
I just quit watching youtube. No participation is even better than trying to get around it.
Maybe YOU won’t be able to do anything about it
Laughs in PipePipe and SmartTube.
Laughs in, well simply not playing the game. No YouTube anymore. That was easy.
Got any recommendations for Peertubers to follow?
If you’re just trying to get around ads, use Brave Browser. Its native adblock is the best.
Brave is chromium based which is developed by Google
Thought Brave was itself, malware…
