How do you think the unthinkable? With an ithberg.
this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2026
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Here I am using firefox and ublock or newpipe, I haven't seen a youtube ad in years. 🤷
I only see ads when I go to a friends house and they have that on the tv app blasting 1min ads every 5minutes.
Introduce them to SmartTube for Android TV
They don't care. I've tried with Vanced, blockers, DNS, everything. They'd rather just watch the ads. Blows my balls off.
Last time I saw a youtube ad (on my devices) was when it was a small picture ad on the right side of the video.
This article is hilarious.
First off - "Trust among users is waning". Dude, it's been waning and most people didn't trust YouTube Premium in the first place because of years of having watched on YouTube with as little to no advertisements. It was glorious. The fuck are you on about?
Second, the second paragraph in, author is citing Reddit as the source of information. This is to imply that we can't see price hikes a mile away? When, even if we didn't, we know services like Netflix has been doing it for a while now and YouTube Premium had a price hike before. But now we need Reddit users to know anything? Fucking lol.
This is a case where just having the headline would've been good for us.
"the unthinkable"
Hyperbole much?
Unthinkable is signing up in the first place
They though the titanic unthinkable until they hit an itheburg.
Incontheivable!
Was about to say the same. Unthinkable, I never even thought of subscribing in the first place!
Inconceivable!
They’re ’Muricans. You gotta give them some slack. Thinking doesn’t come naturally to them.
Sorry to interrupt the circlejerk, but the author is a Brit
I’ve made up my mind. Don’t confuse me with facts!
laughs in:
NewPipe
Tubular
PipePipe
FreeTube
SkyTube
You have to frequently do some shenanigans to get things working because shit keeps breaking. I still do it, but it's honestly annoying AF that i need to tinker with my apps like that all the time.
Is this a good moment to post a link to revanced?
Yeah if you have to compare a service with Netflix, and Netflix comes out as the better value proposition, the other service is doing something really wrong.
I miss the days when companies would grandfather your price in, so price hikes only effected new users... Now days everyone pays.
Lol, the poor suckers who ever paid for premium in the first place.
Now is the time for peertube to shine
unthinkable? Coordinate an attack to kidnap families of high executives?
What's the point of YouTube premium again? uBlock Origin works on laptops, tablets, and phones. Smart Tube works on TVs.
Is there some live sports thing that it's bundled with or something?
me: can we have ad free videos with uBlock Origin + SponsorBlock?
google: we have ad free videos at home.
at home: YouTube Premium
"unthinkable"???
I use a chromecast and, good golly, the number of times I get 90+ second ads is insane. I downloaded nebula the other day and, once I finally get my fill of avgn in the next week or so, I’m leaving and never looking back.
I feel special, now.
It may seem unthinkable, believe me, it is not.
I have a reminder to cancel before the increase. It was, imo, a good deal for no ads, bolstered creator support in YT (Premium views were worth more than free, iirc), and to get YT Music, which I liked more than Spotify.
For $16/mo, I'll set up ad-free options for YT and I'll figure something out for music.
I like the app spotube. It uses the Spotify api to index music and then pulls the data from youtube ad free. It's foss and on Fdroid
Nooooooted. Hell yeah
I can't leave YouTube premium music at this point. I use it in my cars infotainment and it's cheaper than xmradio
I do as well, and that'll be the hardest thing to lose, if I can't find a good equivalent. Cause I have to swap back and forth from Android Auto to the BT player otherwise, and that suuuuuucks.
Tidal is quite good for music. The selection is missing stuff at times, but that usually doesn't last long since I'm pretty sure that only happens when there's some kind of contract renegotiation or something.
I've heard of it, it's on my list. My only real qualm is that I want a good "radio". I don't do play lists, I just hit Supermix on YT and let it play through. Spotify tried to give me the "average" of all my liked songs, so I'd end up with a Playlist that repeated the same 50 songs or so. YT Music seemed to give me varied music at a similar ratio of my liked genres, which was exactly what I wanted.
Does it have a radio function similar to that?
It does, though it's not exactly front and center on certain apps. For instance, in my car, I had to scroll most of the way down the main screen to find the radio stations. They are very good, though. They give a decent mix of stuff you've favorited and things you've never heard before, with the notable exception of the Steven Wilson radio station, which plays almost exclusively bands that Steven Wilson has been in, which alone is more than enough to fill up a whole radio station.
Interesting. I'm fine if I gotta scroll a bit, I usually set it up before I leave. I'll give it a look!
I think there's a free trial of the HiFi version, which is what I have. Sound quality is significantly better than other services, since I'm pretty sure they use FLAC when it's available, and high-bitrate MP3 (I think) for their low-bandwidth mode. Either way, their lowest-quality encoding settings are better than Spotify's old top-tier ones.
I'll be honest, it could be recorded through a tin can and I probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference lol. As long as it shows me new songs every now and then, and gives me varied radio playlists, I'm happy.
Tidal is fucking garbage. You mean I have to pay to have songs fully play? The fuck is that about? Bullshit. Only dumbasses who pay for songs to play fully and not 30 second limits are the tools for that platform.
What's the free music streaming service you use that has no ads? I'd like to try it, I'm obviously in the market.
Lmao buddy resorts to this and then blocks me. What a small human.
Duh, it's called downloading them and we've been doing that since the late 90s. Enjoying that rock of idiocy you've been sleeping under? Do you need streaming services to spoon-feed you content? What a loser.
Look, its an edgelord!
Yeah, but that money actually goes to the artists. It's got one of the best rates for that out of all the streaming services.