I looked at it. The features aren’t worth the price at all.
uBlock Origin has 36,000,000 users according to Google and ABP has 46,000,000 users. Another 13,000,000 use AdGuard and 67,000,000 use AdBlock (the crappy one, but nonetheless, it blocks YouTube ads).
Also on Firefox there are 7,780,587 uBO users. Checkmate
I use uBlock origin on firefox. All my devices are always connected through a VPN with all the ad and tracker blocks turned on.
I am a YouTube premium subscriber.
There are dozens of us… dozens!!!
Same for me!
Same. There really are dozens of us.
Same. It’s expensive, but there’s absolutely no question that I use YouTube enough to justify it. If some can’t afford it I understand and that’s different.
Me too! Im a dozen!
Chrome Web Store Firefox Add-ons Microsoft Edge Add-ons Opera add-ons Total uBlock Origin 36,000,000 7,780,587 10,000,000 12,686,907 66,467,494 uBlock Origin Lite 70,000 3,145 3,000 N/A 73,145 uBlock 700,000 N/A 10,000 N/A 710,000 AdNauseam N/A 74,478 10,000 210,616 295,094 AdBlock Plus 46,000,000 4,064,146 10,000,000 50,844,211 110,908,357 AdBlock 67,000,000 1,206,627 N/A N/A 68,206,627 AdGuard 13,000,000 1,053,029 8,000,000 10,872,145 32,925,174 Total 162,770,000 14,182,012 28,023,000 74,613,879 279,588,891 Source: Official data from extension stores
This table does not include Safari extensions, browser extensions installed through Linux package managers like the firefox-ublock-origin package on Arch Linux, browsers with built in adblockers like LibreWolf or Brave, modded YouTube mobile apps like Vanced/Revanced on Android, uYou for iOS, alternative frontends like Invidious or Piped, desktop clients like FreeTube, other mobile apps like Newpipe, Libretube or Yattee or other adblocking solutions.
Now deduplicate the numbers because I have it installed on 7 browser profiles.
If we also count other (less popular) adblockers, the Microsoft Edge addon store, browsers that come with pre-installed adblockers like Librewolf and Brave, people who use the package manager on their Linux distro to install browser extensions, alternative YouTube clients like Vanced/Revanced, Newpipe and Libretube as well as alternative frontends like Invidious and FreeTube, I’m pretty sure we still come out at over 100 million.
Imagine being me and paying for premium and using ublock + revanced.
At the end of the day, I think I get 10 dollars in value a month, and I know hosting data isn’t free.
Edit: Right after I submitted I read the comment before me. Sorry about saying the exact same thing again 😅
Thank you for being this way.
I think platform greed is awful, but I think consumer greed is something that largely goes unacknowledged.
Even though I’ve been ‘over’ the genre for more than a decade, I still buy Japanese shmups when they appear on Steam - at one time they could only be found on obscure JP Warez sites, forget legally here. I do it out of a sense of something owed for past joy, and never play the Steam ver.
I’m also hypocritical to a degree. I can only afford to support so much and I don’t pay for everything, just what I would have paid for anyways. Perhaps there is some self-satisfying logic built in there lol
I wouldn’t ever give Google a single penny. Instead, I pay for Nebula, allowing me to watch high quality videos and documentaries while supporting indie creators. And it’s just $5/month.
I will probably put my money where my mouth is, and get a nebula subscription
It’s definitely worth it. And it’s better to help independent creators instead of giving money to Google or other shady big tech companies.
Well, I ended up doing it for a year. I’ll see if I end up using it or not.
Not enough content on Nebula. I subscribed because of a couple YouRubers I follow, but there’s just not much there (at least that I watch).
These are some Nebula creators I like
- TLDR News (and their other channels)
- NileRed
- PolyMatter
- ColdFusion
- TechAltar
- Ali Abdaal
- Thomas Frank
- Wendover Productions
- RealLifeLore
- Climate Town
- Half as Interesting
- Real Engineering
- BobbyBroccoli
- EposVox
- Not Just Bikes
I still occasionally use YouTube, but much less than before. I also enjoy Odysee and PeerTube. Grayjay is an amazing Android app to manage all these streaming platforms in one central place.
Thanks for the list! I actually got nebula because of RealLifeLore and Wendover. I’ve since subscribed to TLDR News and Real Engineering so I’ll have to give the other creators on your list a view.
I can give you some video recommendations for each channel I listed if you want to
Just checked out Half as Interesting and realized it’s the same guy as Wendover. Recognized the voice immediately.
Fucking lazy sheep. Yeah, give poor Google your money and help them perpetuate the ever corrupting monopoly that is eroding and censoring our entire internet.
No ads: Android: GrayJay by Futo Windows/Xbox: Atube
Free
Ahah.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Hot on the heels of Google’s “One” subscription plan obtaining 100 million users, YouTube is also hitting that big milestone, with 100 million people paying for Premium and YouTube Music.
YouTube’s subscription data didn’t make it into the earnings call three days ago.
After warning users that ad blockers violate YouTube’s terms of service, the pop-ups show a big “try YouTube Premium” button.
Premium also added an exclusive “enhanced bitrate” 1080p setting, although 2K, 4K, and 8K options have always been free.
YouTube Music is free with ads and a more limited feature set, but subscribing gets you ad-free playback, background playback on phones, and access to YouTube Music streaming on Google’s various speakers.
YouTube’s blog post highlights quotes from many big music industry CEOs celebrating the service.
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I do have YouTube Premium, because between the ad-free movies and TV shows and the music, the family sharing option was cheaper than Spotify and a couple of streaming services we gave up, and the few new content creators I do watch get paid more. But if they keep raising the price, I’ll look for something else.
For me, almost all the media I consume is YouTube so I’m fine paying up to a point but if it goes past 20 without a heap more features I’m out. I was already shocked they took away “continue watching” from normal users.
Yeah I got it after some other lemming told me that you can get it for cheap with a family account. I pay 4 bucks per month now which apparently also supports YouTubers more than watching ads on their videos.
Been doing the same for years. Absolutely worth it.
How many of those subscribers are like me, definitely watching YouTube from Argentine.
Are your recommendations in Spanish?
Heard localized recommendations were an issue with buying “from” India.
That’s over a billion dollars a month. If they’re still operating at a loss with all that then it’s their own incompetence at fault.
You know that’s not pure profit, right? Besides their hardware, development and operational costs, which are substantial, they split that fee with creators.
didn’t ask
How public discourse works, brah.
Found the corporate account. Fuck youtube. Steal that shit.
And it still doesn’t have sponsorblock. Free is more feature rich than paid. Hahaha
Does that work on your phone?
Yes revanced has it, and some other clients too I think
It works for me on piped too
I was using revanced but it quit working for me. I figured Google finally killed it off somehow.
Nah bro I use revanced and its working like a charm atm
uYouPlus on iPhone through AltStore has SponsorBlock (plus normal ad blocking). It’s a pain compared to Android but it’s still super nice to have.
Yes on Revanced
Revanced all the way, baby!
I had to get grayjay because revanced stopped working on an A13, but I can’t seem to find an auto play feature
100 million idiots
Why so negative? Go outside and get some sun, honey
Use Freetube, people.
I watch on my television tho
Use smart tube
Wish there is was a webOS variant for LGs
Get old PC, install Linux use with tv. Smart TVs are such a silly concept
And also, webos is the stingiest of the smart TV OS’s
Get an Onn stick and adapt it to your needs.
There is, you can enable dev mode and install the homebrew channel, here’s a guide for Dev Mode and here’s a guide for the Homebrew Channel
I want the creators I watch on YouTube to continue to get paid, both from YouTube and their sponsors. My contributions through premium are sliver of what they see, but if everyone stopped supporting them in that way, the total would be zero.
I back some of them on Patreon where I can, but it’s not economically feasible for me to back them all in such a way.
I might even consider it out they weren’t selling me music as well and if there was a family option (in my country). And no, I wouldn’t consider VPN as I won’t do extra work to be able to pay google.
Yeah, as someone who gets good mileage with YouTube Premium, I wish they offered a version just for ads without music. YouTube music sucks hard, but I can’t justify paying for another music app on top of it.
