I started a free trial and cancelled it immediately to have no ads while on holiday. Didn’t realize they are offering some illusion of achievements as a “reward” for your attention, doubling as a FOMO weapon for when you want to quit.
Google bad, UBlock Origin good.
☝️ + DeArrow to replace clickbait thumbnails.
- SponsorBlock (by the same guy) to cut out in video ads
I disagree. The main reason to adblock is to stop data collection and such for targeted advertising. Sponsors aren’t targeted and are one of the ethical ways content creators make money. Basically none of the sponsorship goes to YouTube
Yeah, but I don’t want to hear each youtubers cover over the same ad prompt. Plus the youtuber got paid for the ad read already, so me skipping a sponsor read is perfectly fine, I wasn’t gonna click their link anyway.
Yeah maybe you are right but I’m not going to buy anything that I see being advertised so there is no point in me sitting through the ad reads
Meh, I can fast forward ads on my tv so this seems similar. Besides some people are excessive with their ads so they deserve out right bans of their sponsors.
Hard disagree, the arrows let me know what channels and videos to avoid
I have been using dearrow for about a year, cant believe I survived yt without it before.
I have YouTube Premium for a while, and I have never seen these badges.
Same, this is the first time I’ve heard of them. I guess OP is shown these in some form of A/B testing?
Same
I had premium… until they started glitching my songs out because every time an ad would have played, they just skipped 15 seconds of the song, and since an ad never played, the trigger never got disarmed, and all of my songs would play for 5 seconds, then skip 15 seconds.
I was willing to pay to rid my life of ads, but instead I just got glitchy garbled music.
Sounds like a personal problem. That’s not how YT premium works at all.
Wow that sounds atrocious. Music glitching is such a mood killer. Hope you’re in a better place today.
That’s not how YouTube ads work at all. Sounds like your device was just messed up, or maybe some YouTube related addon was interfering with playback. I know from experience that Revanced is unusable with YouTube premium, it seems like they’ve only tested the app on subscriptionless users.
No add ons. Just how youtube premium was behaving on both my android youtube app and my Firefox browser back when I cancelled.
I still love the balls of saying “this is what you experienced an undisclosed amount of time ago? ThAtS nOt HoW yOuTuBe AdS wOrK.”
I had the same on revanced, thought they found a new way to fight adblock.
Turns out if you clear the cache occasionally it goes away. The youtube app is a piece of trash.I would switch, but I only use it for music and I haven’t seen another frontend support mixes, which I rely on
YouTube ReVanced for Android phones and tablets.
Smarttube for Android TV.
And there’s an array of ways to block ads in a web browser.
The psychology on caring about some useless pixels is strange.
Agreed, and please upvote if you agree too
My entire life is caring about pixels lol.
Here, have some useless pixels to make you feel better about yourself: 🏅
Oh no, I can’t get the trophies when using Invidious… 🙃
Man, everything is a game, how will people ever figure out what is reality at this point and get off the dopamine ride express?
This will not work on some, but it will work on some.
These badges look like someone at Google decided to copy the system from Google Maps / Local Guides in some cases verbatim and it’s just odd, you can tell the idea wasn’t designed for Youtube.
This is also your regular reminder that if you’re avoiding Youtube Premium because it’s too expensive for what it offers instead of just avoiding it completely on principle, then you might look into subscribing using a VPN in a country where it’s cheaper (Usually considerably cheaper).
