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    From Mindsurfer@VERT/FUNTOPIA to Nightfox on Wed Nov 12 21:03:00 2025
    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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  • From Daryl Stout@VERT/TBOLTBBS to Mindsurfer on Thu Nov 13 16:55:43 2025
    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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  • From Mindsurfer@VERT/FUNTOPIA to Daryl Stout on Fri Nov 14 12:01:00 2025
    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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  • From Ogg@VERT/CAPCITY2 to Mindsurfer on Thu Nov 13 18:54:00 2025
    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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  • From Mindsurfer@VERT/FUNTOPIA to Ogg on Fri Nov 14 13:46:00 2025
    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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