I actually paid for Reddit Premium about as long as I remember it being around. I cancelled the instant they announced the intent to paywall and censor the API.
I’m generally fine with paying for services I use and enjoy, if I consider the price reasonable. I spent a lot of time on Reddit and considered it reasonable for avoiding ads.
They’ll never see a cent from me again, not from ad revenue or otherwise. I blocked Reddit’s URLs on my PiHole just to be sure.
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I also got YouTube premium, felt a bit rude to spend tens of thousands of hours without paying a cent.
My main issue is demonitising the videos also stops premium revenue, which is a bit dumb. Like sure I get removing ad revenues, but if I’m a paying customer and want a share of my cost to go to whoever I’m watching, it should just do that.
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There was a workaround to signuo for YouTube premium using a VPN to turkey. It makes it $3 a month. Maybe it’s 5 now with the price hike, idk. Not sure if it still works or not though
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Thanks, I didn’t know YT Vanced was being continued
UYouPlus + AltStore exists for apple users as a Vanced like app too. Works without a jailbreak as well.
Though it is a bit of a mess around because apple.
Yeah I’ve had YouTube premium for a long time, and I don’t mind paying for it, but the fact half the people I follow are getting copyright claimed (unfairly) or taken down is really a huge bummer. It’s been hitting the true crime & film review communities particularly hard. I’m hoping more of my fave creators start using Odyssee or rumble because I don’t really like supporting a platform who treats their creators like shit.
What are the benefits to YouTube Premium? I just click off the ad, knee jerk reaction. AdBlock for YouTube make my experience pretty happy.
I do like laying in bed with my gf and watching Omletto videos and the like. Not sure how Premium would help.
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if you block reddit.com and redd.it
you’ll be fiine
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Mine now has a “2” on lemmy.world due to blocking cloudflareinsights. The cost of DDOS protection I suppose.
Small price to pay 🫡
I remember when reddit also used to show 0, then it was one ad, people lost their shit, and reddit said don’t worry, it’s just one.
Side note: I never cared about ads on reddit. I cared about the loss of down votes, their treatment of the RES folks, their shitty app, their shitty hosting, etc.
But this raises the bigger issue, how do we pay for this? I’m on kbin, I have trust issues with money, but nobody is even asking for money low key Wikipedia style.
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Isn’t that kind of like what Nebula and Curiosity Stream are?
I think curiosity stream is a bit different, but nebula and float plane are both creator run and owned and as far as I’m aware both are good to the people making content for them.
I saw a blog recently that had a subscription for a tracking free experience. I just thought it was strange because I either had to consent to all tracking or pay
in the first rounds of the adblock wars, there were several cases of users paying the subscription, whitelisting the site, and immediately being hit with malware …
Makes sense. The websites Reddit loves to send traffic to are massive ad farms.
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He gets us.
But he doesn’t get you anymore. Cheers.
Yep my browsing habits have not changed at all other wise lol
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Hello. We have been trying to reach you about your car’s extended warranty… 😂🤣
Similar story for me as well. Using RiF, the built in tracker for my phone dropped immediately after June 30th.
I never saw all these ads before because I was using Apollo, but then having to use the vanilla reddit app with tons of ads… Nope
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