Looks like Youtube is testing out blocking ad blockers on PC browsers.
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In some cases, you can just skip the ads, after a few seconds.
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You're right, but I originally purchased it as Google Play Music which started in 2011.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Play_Music
The no ads on Youtube benefit was more of a side effect. Best purchase ever. I am grandfathered on the old rate only now expiring at the end of this year.
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I not only ad block the entire internet, I use Sponsor Block on youtube.
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I use the one built into the Vivaldi browser and the Ublock Origin extension with it. So far no ads have gotten through.
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I was under the assumption that most adblockers were made ineffective in Chrome post Manifest 3.0 rollout. Chrome doesn’t allow extensions using older API manifest 2.0. Adblockers still work in Firefox since it allows the use of older API (for now anyway).
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Not sure man, but they work just fine on my Chrome browser, other than the aforementioned popup, but you just hit the X button and the vid will keep playing.
There was a Youtube custom app for the NVidia shield and firetv (I think?) that was really great. I think it was called SmartTubeNext or something like that. It would autoskip sponsor bits, as well as random bullshit bits, like if the youtuber went on a tangent or whatever. It was awesome. I have no idea how they got that to work but it worked great until it stopped working at all.
I would be OK with paying for premium if the standard US price was that of Argentina/India/etc. Im not paying $15 a month to watch meme videos or Now in the 90s. $3 a month? Sure fine.
But not $15.
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When I signed up to Google Play it was 9.99 a month and I got Google Play Music (like Spotify), YT Music (like Spotify but you can play more indie/weird shit as music through the app), and no ad YouTube.
Now in 2023, $13.99 for YT Music and no ads YouTube isn't a horrible price, especially if you cancel your Spotify and use the YT Music instead. It's pretty much the same thing, nothing special about Spotify but YT Music actually has more random shit. Google Play Music was shutdown in 2018 or something like that.
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Evidently it's 1998 in Argentina.
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With inflation, that $3 dollars will be $10 next week anyway
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Well update now i'm getting it on firefox hmm maybe it's time to try a different broswer. Hey i don't mind ads when i watch youtube on the roku but on the desktop it's annoying.Ad-block works for me on firefox for youtube still for how long who knows
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i just started getting this in the last few days, must be new to Canada
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Still haven't seen a single Youtube ad with the combination of Ublock Origin and the built-in ad filtering in the Vivaldi browser.
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Maybe i'll give that broswer a try then.