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Stop YouTube ads once and for all

Does anyone know how to get rid of YT ads on a Samsung TV? I'm good on PC and mobile phone (also Samsung) but the TV is just brutal, increasingly frequent, almost unwatchable, and I can't figure out how to defeat it.
 
GD Fan said:
Does anyone know how to get rid of YT ads on a Samsung TV? I'm good on PC and mobile phone (also Samsung) but the TV is just brutal, increasingly frequent, almost unwatchable, and I can't figure out how to defeat it.
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Use the tv only as a display....
 
GD Fan said:
Does anyone know how to get rid of YT ads on a Samsung TV? I'm good on PC and mobile phone (also Samsung) but the TV is just brutal, increasingly frequent, almost unwatchable, and I can't figure out how to defeat it.
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Get a Premium Account?
 
Don't use spyware (aka "smart tv's"). Get an Apple TV and a pi hole (or a Unifi router with the equivalent feature turned on) and you'll never see an add on YT, Hulu or any of the other digital overlord channels. Premium accounts? Subscriptions? Google is rich enough as it is.
 
Doodski said:
Get a Premium Account?
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And pay for services you don't use, just to be able to watch some YT videos? They had a subscription for people like me, and many others, but they absolutely had to force us into paying for stuff we don't want. So in comes the ad blocker.
 
RHO said:
And pay for services you don't use, just to be able to watch some YT videos? They had a subscription for people like me, and many others, but they absolutely had to force us into paying for stuff we don't want. So in comes the ad blocker.
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Why expect services, entertainment, educational videos and such for free when the originators of the resource are not paid because a person uses an ad blocker?
 
Doodski said:
Why expect services, entertainment, educational videos and such for free when the originators of the resource are not paid because a person uses an ad blocker?
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As I said: they had a subscription that fits. They abandoned it in favor of exclusively providing a much more expensive subscription including services we don't want/need/use/like.
When you go to the gas station to fill up your car, you don't want to pay for an oil change, new windscreen wipers and an interior cleaning. You just want gas and you, hopefully, will pay for it. But not for all the stuff you don't need.
 
RHO said:
As I said: they had a subscription that fits. They abandoned it in favor of exclusively providing a much more expensive subscription including services we don't want/need/use/like.
When you go to the gas station to fill up your car, you don't want to pay for an oil change, new windscreen wipers and an interior cleaning. You just want gas and you, hopefully, will pay for it. But not for all the stuff you don't need.
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O' I see so that entitles you to free services at the expense of the content originators and YouTube's hardware and expenses.
 
Free service? How do you think that company got so rich by providing free service? You are still paying.
Besides, most content creators get paid by other companies, not Google ads. Plenty product placement or ads in the videos themselves. I do watch those.
 
RHO said:
Free service? How do you think that company got so rich by providing free service? You are still paying.
Besides, most content creators get paid by other companies, not Google ads. Plenty product placement or ads in the videos themselves. I do watch those.
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People that expect free stuff from YouTube by using adblockers are abusive.
 
I use YouTube Premium account status and download about 300GB to 700GB per month from YouTube and have zero issues and no hassles. It costs me very little for all that content. There is no justification for using adblockers and making up reasons why.
 
Doodski said:
People that expect free stuff from YouTube by using adblockers are abusive.
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It is not free. People who think that are naive. Ad blocker or not, YOU are still the product.
 
Doodski said:
The product is the content. We are the viewers.
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That is the impression they create.
Collecting your data is the goal of the service.
They are hugely profitable. Why don't they pay out the content creators more then? If that would be the main goal of the service they provide?
Content creators get paid by the companies providing product that will be shown in the video's, by companies that pay for straight up advertisement in the video, by affiliate links, ... Ad revenue is a very small portion.
Besides that, I would pay for YouTube. Not for the services I don't use and don't like, but that I'm forced to pay for because Google chose to remove the possibility to just pay for YouTube, if I would get a subscription.
Still waiting for the return of that possibility. Apparently they are working on an alternative. Wanna bet it will be worse for the user than what was previously offered.
If I would have liked the YT Music service, would actually get a premium subscription. But I really don't like it.
 
DannyBoyNYC said:
Don't use spyware (aka "smart tv's"). Get an Apple TV and a pi hole (or a Unifi router with the equivalent feature turned on) and you'll never see an add on YT, Hulu or any of the other digital overlord channels. Premium accounts? Subscriptions? Google is rich enough as it is.
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Pi Hole, never heard that. I went on their site but I'm not sure about the features. Could you explain a little bit more of it and how you use that? I'm interested on the smart tv adblocking feature
 
I agree with those who believe that users are paying with their data, and that should be enough. This model worked for decades with Google Search, Android, and YouTube. However, in recent years, they’ve become greedier. As user data alone was no longer sufficient to sustain revenue growth, they started seeking additional income streams.

Data harvesting from Google’s supposedly “free” services is very real. Just look at the face recognition in Google Photos or the tracking through Google Maps.

Speaking of Google Photos, they’ve essentially made it deliberately difficult to download all your photos through confusing interface quirks and by separating metadata from the files through the use of Google Takeout. This makes it nearly impossible to preserve your data properly. They also removed the option to sync photos from your PC to the cloud a longer while back, likely because they want full control over the data you upload.

Despite these issues, I still use Google Photos and Google Maps because they’re incredibly convenient, but I don’t fully trust them.

Does that make me a hypocrite? Probably, at least to some extent. The problem is that, as far as I know, nothing else does the job as well or as conveniently. And that’s the trap they’ve set for us.
 
Doodski said:
I use YouTube Premium account status and download about 300GB to 700GB per month from YouTube and have zero issues and no hassles. It costs me very little for all that content. There is no justification for using adblockers and making up reasons why.
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I'm reading your youtube fanboy posts and I wonder what urges you to partecipate on a thread called "Stop YouTube ads once and for all". I mean, if you are happy with your premium account you shouldn't be here, just enjoy your streaming
 
recycle said:
Pi Hole, never heard that. I went on their site but I'm not sure about the features. Could you explain a little bit more of it and how you use that? I'm interested on the smart tv adblocking feature
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Short version: it's a local DNS server - the thing that converts the human readable domain name (like www.audiosciencereview.com) to the numeric address of the computer to talk to. It has a 'naughty list' of domain names associated with advertising or related data collection. When something asks for a domain name not on the 'naughty list' it fetches the correct address from one of the normal DNS servers on the internet and returns that. When something asks for a domain name on the 'naughty list' it says it can't find it, or returns a harmless address that won't expose your data.
 
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