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Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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1036 points deryilz | 2 comments | 12 Jul 25 19:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.551s | source
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labrador ◴[12 Jul 25 19:53 UTC] No.44544639[source]▶
I'd gladly pay for YouTube without ads if I trusted that it would remain ad free, but the track record from various companies on this is not good.
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j45 ◴[12 Jul 25 20:02 UTC] No.44544696[source]▶
Youtube premium has remained adfree as far as I know.

Best to try it out yourself. I can't watch Youtube with Ads ever anymore.

If a 100% Ad-free youtube premium at the current price point ever went away, something would have to change about the ads.

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theoreticalmal ◴[12 Jul 25 20:22 UTC] No.44544839[source]▶
I get an ad-free YouTube experience for $0 with software. Why do you pay for it?
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cbeley ◴[12 Jul 25 20:43 UTC] No.44545008[source]▶
Because I want to actually support content creators. I also want it to be more normalized to pay for things vs having ad supported content.
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1. matheusmoreira ◴[12 Jul 25 23:10 UTC] No.44546000[source]▶
Then subscribe to their Patreon instead of paying YouTube.
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2. lucb1e ◴[13 Jul 25 01:01 UTC] No.44546578[source]▶
I was a bit surprised to find that Patreon also keeps a pretty large commission. But, yeah, at least it's not owned by Google and what else are you going to do when most creators list this as their only option. I'm just confused when there's easy options like sending cash directly to their IBAN or using a nonprofit like Liberapay (they just have their own donation page and, instead of taking a cut, make money that way: https://liberapay.com/Liberapay)