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    YouTube is sending me fcuking mad!!

    As you probably know, YT is bombarding everyone with compulsory advert clips at the start and at intervals throughout watching a video. It seems that the only way to avoid these adverts is to pay and subscribe to YT Premium.

    Does anyone have a solution to these annoying adverts, other than paying for YT Premium?
    Groping women when you're old is fine - everyone thinks you're senile

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    I never see any.

    Chrome and Firefox on Win 11 with U-Block and Adblock as extensions.

    Use YT everyday and never ever see any ads.

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    Premiums well cheap in Thailand. It was a game changer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edmond View Post
    Use YT everyday and never ever see any ads.
    Quote Originally Posted by armstrong View Post
    Premiums well cheap in Thailand. It was a game changer.
    It could be a case that the wee princess signed up to premium without us knowing. There was a 3 month bill for 70k or so baht last year for Toca Boca cities and outfits.

    She knew what she was doing.

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    I have the annoying ads but I don't find them annoying as some find them. The entertainment value I get from YouTube outweighs the annoying ads.

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    How much per month do they want? To not see the adds? If it's reasonable I might pay it. Life's to short

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    Quote Originally Posted by BLD View Post
    How much per month do they want?
    After one-month free access, (one month free trial is for eligible customers only) a monthly service fee of 139 Baht (VAT inclusive) will be incurred for the first three months of service use, and 159 Baht (VAT inclusive) for the following months.
    Does that help?

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    Quote Originally Posted by BLD View Post
    How much per month do they want? To not see the adds? If it's reasonable I might pay it. Life's to short
    Here it is dirt cheap 150B a month or so.

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    I simply mute an advert and press skip when it shows up.

    I refuse to pay on principle. But I have to say, once I view a long YT programme on my Ipad I seldom get an interruption, it’s only when one searches and surfs.

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    Install Youtube-adblocker extension in your browser.

    If it's Android for music, download Innertune (although I prefer Spotube).
    Last edited by harrybarracuda; 22-06-2024 at 06:34 PM.

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    All about control and manipulation.
    Too easy.
    Suckers.

    Continue to play their game. Accepted.
    Challenging and questioning is a novelty.

    Live one's protest.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Seekingasylum View Post
    I refuse to pay on principle.
    Which principle is that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by aging one View Post
    Here it is dirt cheap 150B a month or so.
    You could get 4 Cindy's a year for that, I'd imagine.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edmond View Post
    It could be a case that the wee princess signed up to premium without us knowing. There was a 3 month bill for 70k or so baht last year for Toca Boca cities and outfits.

    She knew what she was doing.
    Love a toca Boca city. Get her to the clean the car for 25thb room. Absolute bargain.

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    Quote Originally Posted by armstrong View Post
    Love a toca Boca city.
    Yeah, of course it was the kid that spent 70k on it. *looks around shiftily*

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    Quote Originally Posted by BLD View Post
    Life's to short
    Just like some words.


    It seems to be more of a mobile device things and less a PC with windows thing.

    Maybe it's a case of the normal free adblockers on windows doing a better job that those on android etc.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DrWilly View Post
    Which principle is that?

    Go Jeff, I received your red. What principle of not paying for a service rendered does this fall into? Is watches videos on the internet for free a hooman right
    Last edited by DrWilly; 22-06-2024 at 08:04 PM.

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    It's an ongoing battle.

    Last week Brave browser fell, this week it's back to add-free yootoob.
    Firefox with uBlock origin is hit and miss. Reports from tech websites say google are only partially enforcing their countermeasures so there will be some difference in how individual users get ads or not.
    Some people think it don't, but it be.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PlanK View Post
    Reports from tech websites say google are only partially enforcing their countermeasures so there will be some difference in how individual users get ads or not.
    But oh, those rib-achingly funny memes you post, R2.


    He Hehe.

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    get yourself a PiHole , plug it into your network and set your computer DNS to use it

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    YT stated that it's 129 baht a month for ad-free service. By the way, I'm not talking about pop-up ads. I'm talking about 5 second, 10 second and 30 second videos that play before the video that you want to watch, or regularly interrupt that video.

    So I decided to pay the 129 baht each month (first month is free). I went through the sign up process entered my card details and it was rejected as expired expiry date (it's not! and the card works fine with other websites). I entered a second card details and got the same result! So fcuk 'em if they don't want my money!

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    buy a fucking book and read it. no ads.

    poo tube turning you all into mushy brained idiots.

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    Still shows some good stuff ……..Colditz, Tinker Tailor, Smileys People, war stuff and music.

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    Jesus kerist, pay for cable or a streaming service.

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