Technology

for Android (TV): smart tube next

For a browser (Firefox): ublock origin.

Have not seen an ad in years, and i have not paid a cent to youtube.

They are using automatic dubbing by default here in France! I was horrified the first time.

And God forbid you enable captions on the video or something - it'll disable itself every time an ad plays.

I have premium through a page that makes family groups and you pay a lot less. From time to time there is an issue with the group and you spend like two days without premium until it is fixed.

During those periods YT is unwatchable and I skip using it until the issue is fixed

And then there is the occasional 30 minute to an hour infomercial that comes on obvious stuff people watch to go to sleep! I wanted someone softly talking about outer spacey things, not you're shitty product I give so much little of a fuck about that I didn't even look at what was being advertised. I hate you so much I will not even remember your name to give you free advertising by birding about you online!

I didn’t mind paying a fiver but had to do it via the moon to get it cheap but now they have stopped that.

Useful idiot mentality. They're charging you that money to maximize profit, not because it's necessary to provide the service.

Your "fivers" are paying for their nicer campuses, executive bonuses, and lavish business trips/vacations. Analysts also use it as an excuse to charge more, since the data shows that people like you are "happy/proud" to get ripped off.

I wish proles were smarter and a bit more mean so they could better recognize how they're being taken advantage of and how often they support their oppressors.

Too many of you go along with getting taken for a ride because you want to fit in and avoid conflict. Businessmen take advantage of that mentality every day.

Or you use adblock

I dunno, I realized a long time ago this is just a business for the people engaging in it.

Of course they're making more money than they need and are partying as much as possible with it.

The same wsd also reported by Second Wind (old Zero Punctuation) and their experience is the same: way too sudden drop to be anything else except YouTube adjusting their algorithm.

In their video, Yahtzee said it could be related to Restricted Mode on youtube suddenly turns on by itself. Or at least that's their hypothesis, since they checked that if that mode is on, a lot of their videos vanished from their channel.