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Re:Companies use dark patterns to keep you subscribed by taude on Thursday May 04, 2023 @12:25PM (#35817986)
I've used uBlockOrigin in the past for YouTube ads, and it works well on a laptop.

What's nice about Premium, if you use it on an iPad, is it lets you download videos, and let's you also play them in the background, etc. I did this a lot for listening to Sleep casts and such....

I'm at a point, though, where I only want to consume YouTube content from a computer, when I'm trying to solve a problem, and not passively consume it like I was for awhile.

Also, so much of the content I have has "built in" ads, and it's annoying enough that it degrades from the content for me.

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Re:Companies use dark patterns to keep you subscribed by goosedragons on Thursday May 04, 2023 @01:29PM (#35819088)
What's annoying about premium is a lot of the features are things that were free that they made not be. You USED to be able to play videos in the background on an iPad no problem then they decided that was a paid feature for some reason. Fortunately on Android you can easily do it with Firefox and an extension.
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