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Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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1034 points deryilz | 1 comments | 12 Jul 25 19:06 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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. lucb1e ◴[13 Jul 25 00:57 UTC] No.44546552[source]▶
I don't think you're normalizing ad-supported content when running an ad blocker

As for paying for the content you consume, most of the costs aren't on Google's side. I can understand paying for Youtube as a shortcut to hopefully giving some pennies to each person you watch, though, at least for those with no moral objection to making Google's/Youtube's monopoly in online video stronger