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by mam4 1643 days ago
The "youtube vanced" app does that for free.

Dont feed the tech giants dark patterns
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moonchrome 1643 days ago
Dark pattern of paying to have add free content ? If anything I want more of that.
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stu2b50 1642 days ago
Yeah YouTube premium is where I put my money where my is. Always said I would prefer if I could pay for content outright rather than be advertised to. Well, this is it.
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mam4 1642 days ago
Why do it if its free. Thats posturing
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moonchrome 1642 days ago
It's not free - if everyone blocked ads and nobody paid they would have no revenue, you are just freeloading by using stuff like vanced.
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mam4 1642 days ago
Youtube had no revenue for years, they dont NEED money magically right now.

If you can freeload something from a big co just do it. Its not a morality debate

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5bolts 1643 days ago
but it doesn't do it on all platforms. PC only sure. Red works on smart tvs, phones, tablets, xbox, computer..

and you get the youtube music with it.

it costs me about 20 min worth of work once a month to remove ads from my primary media consumption site.. totally worth it, and don't have to mess with 3rd party BS. Completely changes the youtube experience

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benfrancom 1643 days ago
Brave browser does it for free by “Enable background audio” in settings. It blocks ads by default too.
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