Re: Then, once you paid for premium..
By: Nightfox to MRO on Tue Nov 11 2025 13:23:08

i think youtube has tried to get me to do a premium trial like 1000x.
some people say it's good for playing music.

I've had YouTube Premium for a little while. I do think it's good for music, though I also like to browse & watch videos on YouTube sometimes, and it's nice to not have them interrupted with ads.

Youtubes Ad frequency and length has become unbearable.
i now have ad-free youtube everywhere. Smarttube on FireTV, Revanced App Versions on Android and Brave Browser on Desktop (Linux Mint). And in case one wants to download Youtube Videos, yt-dlp on desktop or seal on android.

Mindsurfer

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Youtubes Ad frequency and length has become unbearable.

And, they can tell if you have an ad blocker installed. If they
detect that (and you're not paying at least $15 a month for the
YouTube Premium), they block your IP address.

I've noticed various browser extensions have add-ons to block
the YouTube deal, but it's frustrating having to watch an ad for
10 seconds...then not 2 minutes later, here's another ad. At least
they can't stop you from muting the audio for it.

Daryl

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Re: Then, once you paid for p
By: Daryl Stout to Mindsurfer on Thu Nov 13 2025 16:55:43

Youtubes Ad frequency and length has become unbearable.

And, they can tell if you have an ad blocker installed. If they detect that (and you're not paying at least $15 a month for the YouTube Premium), they block your IP address.

that has yet to happen to me. Blocking Youtube ads for quite a while on all devices and it is working just fine.
PS: i am on a dynamic IP (changing every 24h). but i'm not sure if they would really block IPs

Mindsurfer

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Hello Mindsurfer!

** On Wednesday 12.11.25 - 21:03, Mindsurfer wrote to Nightfox:

Youtubes Ad frequency and length has become unbearable.
i now have ad-free youtube everywhere. ...
..or seal on android.

Newpipe is excellent for android too.


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Re: Then, once you paid for p
By: Ogg to Mindsurfer on Thu Nov 13 2025 18:54:00

Youtubes Ad frequency and length has become unbearable. i now have ad-free
youtube everywhere. ... ..or seal on android.

Newpipe is excellent for android too.

Thats true. One of those apps that does not need you to login to youtube and keeps all "channel subscribtions" in a locally stoed list of channels. If you have alot of Channels you are subscribed to, it can take a while to refresh for new videos =) (it literally takes minutes to refresh 1209 channels ;) )

I have Newspipe installed, but more like a last line of defense, in case they would kill my youtube account for reasons of blocking ads or something.

Mindsurfer

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Hello Mindsurfer!

** On Friday 14.11.25 - 13:46, Mindsurfer wrote to Ogg:

..(it literally takes minutes to refresh 1209
channels ;) )

Wow.


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Re: Then, once you paid for p
By: Daryl Stout to Mindsurfer on Thu Nov 13 2025 16:55:43

And, they can tell if you have an ad blocker installed. If they
detect that (and you're not paying at least $15 a month for the
YouTube Premium), they block your IP address.

I must be flying under the radar. I've been using ad blockers for years and I've never been blocked. If an ad blocker becomes ineffective, I just switch to another that is; I've only had to do that twice over a span of 10+ years.

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Re: Then, once you paid for p
By: Ogg to Mindsurfer on Fri Nov 14 2025 18:11:00

..(it literally takes minutes to refresh 1209 channels

Wow.

That it takes minutes to refresh or because someone actually subscribes to (seriously?) that many channels?

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Re: Then, once you paid for p
By: Mortar to Daryl Stout on Sat Nov 15 2025 01:24 pm

Re: Then, once you paid for p
By: Daryl Stout to Mindsurfer on Thu Nov 13 2025 16:55:43

And, they can tell if you have an ad blocker installed. If they
detect that (and you're not paying at least $15 a month for the
YouTube Premium), they block your IP address.

I must be flying under the radar. I've been using ad blockers
for years and I've never been blocked. If an ad blocker becomes ineffective, I just switch to another that is; I've only had to do
that twice over a span of 10+ years.

youtube will not block your ip address.
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Hello Mortar!

..(it literally takes minutes to refresh 1209 channels

Wow.

That it takes minutes to refresh or because someone actually subscribes to (seriously?) that many channels?

Oh.. I meant the # of channels!

I have something like 20 yt, but the need to keep up has
diminished.


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